(simile) To evade or shun, if at all possible.

(only used attributively) Having life; that is alive. / Being in existence; actual. / Having active properties; being energized. / Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.

The pupa of a butterfly or moth, enclosed inside a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place. / The cocoon itself. / (figuratively) A limiting environment or situation.

A mark once used in margins to draw attention to something in text. / (music) A traditional woodwind instrument used in Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin music.