intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To exist; be.

intransitive verb. To remain or continue in existence.

intransitive verb. To maintain life; live.

intransitive verb. To be logically conceivable.

intransitive verb. To maintain or support with provisions.

To remain; continue; abide; retain the existing state.

To have continued existence; exist.

To be maintained; be supported; live.

To inhere; have existence by means of something else.

To keep in existence.

To feed; maintain; support with provisions.

transitive verb. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain.

intransitive verb. To be; to have existence; to inhere.

intransitive verb. To continue; to retain a certain state.

intransitive verb. To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

verb. To survive on a minimum of resources.

verb. support oneself

"Sometimes a man will labour for weeks and months in unproductive ground, following up a small vein in the hope of its leading into a good lode, and making so little by his hard toil that on pay day of each month he is compelled to ask his employer for "subsist" -- or a small advance of money -- to enable him to live and go on with his work."