#359.  Life. —­ N. life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark,
vital flame, soul, spirit.
     respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one’s nostrils; oxygen,
air.
     [devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator,
heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices &c. 662.
     lifeblood; Archeus[obs3]; existence &c. 1.
     vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification &c. 163;
Prometheus; life to come &c. (destiny) 152.
     [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.
     nourishment, staff of life &c. (food) 298.
     genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection,
reproduction (production) 161.
     microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe,
obligate anaerobe, halophile[Microbiol], methanogen[Microbiol], archaebacteria[Microb], microaerophile[Microbiol].
     animal &c. 366; vegetable &c. 367.
     artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.
     [vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse,
temperature.
     preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662. 
     V. be alive &c. adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist &c. (exist) 1;
walk the earth “strut and fret one’s hour upon the stage” [Macbeth]; be spared.
     see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw
breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.
     give birth to &c. (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life,
vitalize; vivify, vivificate[obs3]; reanimate &c. (restore) 660; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.
     hive nine lives like a cat. 
     Adj. living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living;
on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative[obs3]; lively &c. (active) 682; all alive and kicking; tenacious of life; full of life, yeasty.
     vital, vitalic[obs3]; vivifying, vivified, &c. v.; viable,
zoetic[obs3]; Promethean. 
     Adv. vivendi causa[Lat]. 
     Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Lat][Seneca]; non est vivere sed
valere vita [Lat][Marial].

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     #360.  Death. —­ N. death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure,
obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.
     end of life &c. 67, cessation of life &c. 142, loss of life,
extinction of life, ebb of life &c. 359.
     death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death,
agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne[Fr]; rigor mortis[Lat]; Stygian shore. 
     King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c. (necessity) 601; “Hell’s
grim Tyrant” [Pope].
     euthanasia; break up