Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Living \Liv"ing\, n.
   1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life;
      existence. ``Health and living.'' --Shak.

   2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living;
      earnest living. `` A vicious living.'' --Chaucer.

   3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.

            She can spin for her living.          --Shak.

            He divided unto them his living.      --Luke xv. 12.

   4. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living
      comfortably.

            There is no living without trusting somebody or
            other in some cases.                  --L' Estrange.

   5. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge
      which a minister receives. [Eng.]

            He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a
            living                                --Macaulay.

   {Livng room}, the room most used by the family.