These are the meanings of the letters ELVIVY when you unscramble them.
- Evil (a.)
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
- Evil (a.)
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
- Evil (a.)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
- Evil (adv.)
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
- Evil (n.)
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
- Evil (n.)
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
- Evil (n.)
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
- Levy (n.)
A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
- Levy (n.)
That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
- Levy (n.)
The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
- Levy (n.)
The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.
- Levy (v. i.)
To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.
- Levy (v. t.)
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- Levy (v. t.)
To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
- Levy (v. t.)
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
- Levy (v. t.)
To raise, as a siege.
- Levy (v. t.)
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
- Levy (v. t.)
To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
- Live (a.)
Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
- Live (a.)
Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
- Live (a.)
Having life; alive; living; not dead.
- Live (a.)
Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
- Live (a.)
Vivid; bright.
- Live (n.)
Life.
- Live (v. i.)
To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
- Live (v. i.)
To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
- Live (v. i.)
To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
- Live (v. i.)
To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
- Live (v. i.)
To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
- Live (v. i.)
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
- Live (v. i.)
To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
- Live (v. i.)
To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
- Live (v. i.)
To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
- Live (v. t.)
To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
- Live (v. t.)
To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
- Veil (n.)
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- Veil (n.)
A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
- Veil (n.)
A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
- Veil (n.)
Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
- Veil (n.)
Same as Velum, 3.
- Veil (n.)
Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
- Veil (n.)
The calyptra of mosses.
- Veil (n.)
To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
- Vile (superl.)
Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
- Vile (superl.)
Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
- Vive ()
Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
- Vive (a.)
Lively; animated; forcible.