What is "living stone"

Living \Liv"ing\ (l[i^]v"[i^]ng), a. [From Live, v. i.]

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

2. Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. `` Living hope. ''
   --Wyclif.

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

4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. ``Living light.''
   --Shak.

5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.

   Then on the living coals wine they pour.
   --Dryden.

   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.''
   --Moore.

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

n. any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones [syn: lithops, stoneface, stone-face, stone plant, stone life face, flowering stone]