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Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..

Gain :: Gain (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living..

Sea Snake :: Sea snake () Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad..

Viable :: Viable (a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant..

Collative :: Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

Livingly :: Livingly (adv.) In a living state.

Hexicology :: Hexicology (n.) The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally..

Fourierism :: Fourierism (n.) The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common..

Orbitolites :: Orbitolites (n.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers..

Breadthwinner :: Breadthwinner (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.

Bushman :: Bushman (n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people..

Lifelike :: Lifelike (a.) Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait..

Metempsychosis :: Metempsychosis (n.) The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls..

Advowson :: Advowson (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.].

Electro-physiological :: Electro-physiological (a.) Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism..

Vital :: Vital (a.) Containing life; living.

Irritability :: Irritability (n.) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contracti

Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies..

Sustentacle :: Sustenance (n.) That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance..

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