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/lˈɪvɪŋ rɑk/ Listen

adjective

Living adj.

Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.

Active; lively; vigorous; said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. " Living hope. "

Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; opposed to stagnant.

Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. "Living light."

Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live. "Then on the living coals wine they pour."

Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis.

Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale.

Living rock or Living stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock."

The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.

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Etymology of 'Living rock'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Living rock" Quotes from Famous Books

... Although constantly and industriously ascending towards the light, it receded faster than we could climb. After half an hour of toil, it finally deserted us to the night. At this moment the guide pointed to a mass that I had thought a fragment of the living rock, and said it was the roof a building. It still appeared so near, that I fancied we had arrived; but minute after minute went by, and this too was gradually swallowed up in the gloom. At the end of another quarter of an hour, we came to a place where the path, always steep since ...

— A Residence in France - With An Excursion Up The Rhine, And A Second Visit To Switzerland • J. Fenimore Cooper

... Peter called a halt, and pointed out the first set of chains. Without these, in my weak state I could never have attempted the ascent. Even as it was, my eye was dazed and my head swam and reeled as I hung like a fly upon the dizzy side. But clutching with desperation the chains riveted in the living rock, I hauled myself up after Peter, and sank down thoroughly worn out upon ...

— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... shame. So the King said he would give both money and goods to anyone who could dig him such a well as would hold water for a whole year round, but no one could do it, for the palace lay high, high up on a hill, and they could only dig a few inches before they came upon the living rock. ...

— Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know • Various

... the torrents had madly broken a way, tearing through every obstacle till they reached the Rhone, and marking their course with devastation; the scene of direful ruin at Martigny; the cataracts gushing, bounding from the living rock and plunging into some unseen abyss below; even the shrubs and the fruit trees which in the wider parts of the valley bordered the road side; the vines, the rich scarlet barberries, the apples and pears which we might have gathered by extending our hands;—all and each, when I recall ...

— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

... with infinite labour been carved out of the living rock, but so much detached from it that only two slender ties remained to connect it with the vast mass of which it had once formed a part. It stood on a high platform, with a large bowl before it, in which the ...

— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston