*liver*

n. [ Corrupted fr. caliber. ] An early form of hand gun, a variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cleavers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The liver of the common cod and allied species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained from the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Delivered p. pr. & vb. n. Delivering. ] [ F. délivrer, LL. deliberare to liberate, give over, fr. L. de + liberare to set free. See Liberate. ] 1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezek. xxxiii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. Gen. xl. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

The constables have delivered her over. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The exalted mind
All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till he these words to him deliver might. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was delivered safe and soon. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To discover; to show. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll deliver
Myself your loyal servant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To deliberate. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To admit; to allow to pass. [ Obs. ] Bacon.

Syn. -- To Deliver, Give Forth, Discharge, Liberate, Pronounce, Utter. Deliver denotes, literally, to set free. Hence the term is extensively applied to cases where a thing is made to pass from a confined state to one of greater freedom or openness. Hence it may, in certain connections, be used as synonymous with any or all of the above-mentioned words, as will be seen from the following examples: One who delivers a package gives it forth; one who delivers a cargo discharges it; one who delivers a captive liberates him; one who delivers a message or a discourse utters or pronounces it; when soldiers deliver their fire, they set it free or give it forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. delivre free, unfettered. See Deliver, v. t. ] Free; nimble; sprightly; active. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wonderly deliver and great of strength. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. délivrance, fr. délivrer. ] 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of bringing forth children. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Act of speaking; utterance. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who relates or communicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female deliverer. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swim with your bodies,
And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nimbleness; agility. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Deliveries 1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neater limbs and freer delivery. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White-livered; cowardly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, lives. [ 1913 Webster ]

And try if life be worth the liver's care. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way. --
Free liver,
Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table. --
Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. &unr_; fat, E. live, v. ] (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of cæcal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering. --
Liver of antimony,
Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar. --
Liver brown,
Liver color, the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown. --
Liver shark (Zool.), a very large shark (Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes referred to as whale shark, but that name is more commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even larger. --
Liver spots, yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots of chloasma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The liveried servants wait. Parnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Liverwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Liverpool; as, Liverpudlian street urchins. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to Liverpool; as, Liverpudlian streets. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A resident of Liverpool. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) 1. A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ From this plant many others of the same order (Hepaticæ) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribe Marchantiaceæ. See Illust. of Hepatica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Liveries [ OE. livere, F. livrée, formerly, a gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to deliver up. See Liberate. ] 1. (Eng. Law) (a) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. (b) The writ by which possession is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is usual to say, livery of seizin, which is a feudal investiture, made by the delivery of a turf, of a rod, a twig, or a key from the feoffor to the feoffee as a symbol of delivery of the whole property. There was a distinction of livery in deed when this ceremony was performed on the property being transferred, and livery in law when performed in sight of the property, but not on it. In the United States, and now in Great Britain, no such ceremony is necessary, the delivery of a deed being sufficient as a livery of seizin, regardless of where performed. Black's 4th Ed. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Release from wardship; deliverance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.; especially: (a) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service. (b) The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery. (c) Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Haberdasher and a Carpenter,
A Webbe, a Dyer, and a Tapicer,
And they were clothed all in one livery
Of a solempne and a gret fraternite. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

(d) Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance. “ April's livery.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

(e) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [ white bread ], and of silver two great pots, and white wine, and sugar. Cavendish.

(f) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery. [ 1913 Webster ]

What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly food. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

It need hardly be observed that the explanation of livery which Spenser offers is perfectly correct, but . . . it is no longer applied to the ration or stated portion of food delivered at stated periods. Trench.

(g) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept; also, the place where horses are so kept, also called a livery stable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A low grade of wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

Livery gown, the gown worn by a liveryman in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To clothe in, or as in, livery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Liverymen 1. One who wears a livery, as a servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company, guild, or district to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who keeps a livery stable. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White-livered; cowardly; timorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ OF. oliviere. ] An olive grove. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ F. olivier. ] An olive tree. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Hist.) An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who outlives. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A survivor. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pigeon-hearted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay&unr_;iffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To report; to deliver the answer of. [ R. ] “Shall I redeliver you e'en so?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second deliverance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of delivering back. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A second or new delivery or liberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings. [ Local, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. slivered p. pr. & vb. n. slivering. ] [ See Slive, v. t. ] To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They 'll sliver thee like a turnip. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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