noun
A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
I'd like some goose liver pate.
You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
adj
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
noun
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.
a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man[…].
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.
Thou king of heaven, which […] Dost see the secret of each livers heart.
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place.
One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.