liver 
Hence 2. The bay or glossy ibis, 
igiieuf, which when adult has the plumage chief- 
ly liver-colored or hepatic. 
The ibis is adopted as part of the arms of the town of 
Liverpool. . . This is termed the liner. 
Montagu, Wet. Brit. Birds (ed. Newman). 
The glossy ibis or liver. A. E. Brehm. 
Bronze liver, a liver colored dark reddish-brown, olive- 
brown, or black from severe malarial poisoning. De- 
graded liver, in human path<H.,a.n abnormal condition 
m which the liver is divided into a number of lobes as in 
the gorilla Floating liver, a displaced and movable 
liver Granular liver. See granular. Hobnailed 
liver. See hitlmaUed. Line Of the liver. See line 0} 
health, under line?. Liver Of antimony*, a combination 
of trisulphid of antimony with a basic sulphid of another 
metal. Liver of sulphur, a mixture of polysulphids of 
potassium, or potassium trisulphite. It is made by heat- 
ing sulphur with potassium carbonate in a closed vessel. 
The composition of the fused liver-colored mass is vari- 
able. Longitudinal ligament of the liver, the broad 
ligament. 
liver 3 (liv'er), i'. t. [< ME. Kvereu, le-vereii, < 
OF. livrer, F. licrer = Sp. Pg. librar = It. libe- 
rarc, liverare, Iwrare = D. leveren = G. liefeni 
= Dan. levere = Sw. levera, deliver, give up, < 
L. liberare, set free, liberate, deliver, ML. also 
(with other forms librare, lierare, after Rom.) 
give up: see liberate and deliver. Hence lii'- 
ery 2 .] To deliver. [Old and prov. Eng.] 
And to his men he liverd hym hole and feere. 
MS. Laiadowae, 208, fol. 2. (Ualliuxll.) 
liver 4 !, a. [Appar. < <!, or live 2 , + -er; but per- 
haps, by apheresis, from deliver, a.] Lively. 
Those that saw Robin Hood run 
Said he was a liver old man. 
RMn Hood and the Old Man (Child's Ballads, V. 259). 
liver 5 (liv'er), H. A fabulous bird borne upon 
the arms of Liverpool, England, traditionally 
supposed to have given a part of the name of 
that city. It lias been variously identified. See 
lii-erf, 2. 
liverance (liv'er-ans), . [< ME. liveraunec, < 
OF. liverance, livrance, delivery,< livrer, deliver: 
see lifer 3 . Cf. deliverance.] A delivery or de- 
liverance. Halliwell. [North. Eng.] 
liver-color (liv'er-kul'qr), . A color resem- 
bling or suggesting that of raw calf's liver 
freshly cut, somewhat smeared with blood, 
and seen at a little distance; a red of very 
low luminosity, and of moderately full chroma. 
A color-disk composed of .,' scarlet iodide of mercury and 
J8 intense velvet-black might be called a line liver-color 
tending toward maroon. The liver itself is decidedly 
yellower, grayer, and brighter. Kidgway defines liver- 
color by a wash of Schoufeld's Indian red, which is 
matched by the following color -disk formula : scarlet, 14 ; 
bright chrome-yellow, 2; white, 4; velvet-black, 80. This 
inclines toward teira-cotta. 
liver-colored (liv'er-kul"prd), a. Of the color 
of liver ; hepatic ; of the color called liver-color ; 
said especially of ceramic ware, as a certain 
variety of old Chinese porcelain and its imita- 
tions. 
liver-complaint (liv'er-kom-plant"), it. Dis- 
ease of the liver. 
livered (liv'erd), a. [< Hro-2 + -72.] l. Hav- 
ing a liver (of the kind specified): used in com- 
position: as, a fOOT-lirered or fs,t-livered cod- 
fish. 2. Of some character attributed to a 
state of the liver : as, white-Mwrai, lily-livered, 
milk-lirered (all meaning 'cowardly'). 
But I am pigeon -lioer'd, and lack gall 
To make oppression bitter. 
Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 60S. 
3. Heavy or underbaked. Halliwell. [South. 
Eng.] 
liverert (liv'er-er), . [< lirer-y* + -r2.] A ser- 
vant in livery. Davies. 
Their sumptuous suits of Kverent. 
Patten (Arber's Eng. Garner, III. 74). 
liveresont, . [ME. lyveresone, < OF. livreisoti, 
livreson, Jimiison, etc., F. Uvraison, delivery, 
livery: see livery^, Uvraison, liberation."] Livery. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 309. 
liver-fluke (liv'er-flo'k), . A trematoid worm, 
Diytoma Jiepatica. See Distoma andfluke^. 
liver-grownt (liv'er-gron), 11. Suffering from 
enlargement of the liver. 
I suffer'd him to be open'd, when they found that he 
was what is vulgarly call d liivr-grotrne. 
Evelyn Diary, Jan. 27, 1BS8. 
liveried (liv'er-id),. [< livery + -ecV.'] Wear- 
ing a livery, or uniform dress. See livery. 
A thousand liveried angels lacky her. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 455. 
liveringt (liv'er-ing), . [< ME. lereryiuj : < 
lirer% + -i'n</2.] A kind of pudding or sausage 
made of liver or pork. 
Two blodynges, I trow, a lnveryng betwene. 
Tomieley Mysteries, p. 89. (Halliwell.) 
Liverinys, white-skinned as ladies. Chapman, 
3488 
liverlea'f (liv'i-r-lef), . [So called from a fan 
cied resemblance of the three-lobed leaves to 
the liver.] A spring flower of the genus Ane- 
mone, in two species, sometimes regarded as 
forming a genus Hepatica. The leaves are all from 
the root heart-shaped and three-lobed. The delicate flow- 
ers are single on hairy scapes, colored blue, pink, or white. 
The routul-lobed or kidney litrrleaf is A. Hepatica (Hepii- 
tica trilnha). (See cut under Uepatica.) The eliaru-lobed 
or heart lioerleaf is A. acutiloba. [Local, U. S.) 
liver-ore (liv'er-6r), H. An impure liver-brown 
variety of cinnabar ; hepatic cinnabar. 
liver-pyrites (liv'er-pi-il'tfa), A massive 
form of iron pyrites (marcasite, and sometimes 
also pyrite and pyrrhotite), having a dull liver- 
brown color. 
liversickt (liv'er-sik), a. Having a diseased 
liver that is, in love: from the old notion that 
the liver is the seat of love. 
Demon, my friend, once liverttick of love. 
Bp. Sail, Satires, II. vli. 47. 
liver-spots (liv'er-spots), H. pi. A disease, pity- 
riasis versicolor. See pityrinsis. 
liverstone (liv'er-ston), . [= G. leberxtein (tr. 
NL. lai>ix liepaticus, so called by Cronstedt with 
ref . to the color, or perhaps to the similarity to 
liver-pyrites (G. leberkies), which gives off sul- 
phur fumes when heated).] A variety of the 
mineral barite which gives off a fetid odor 
when rubbed or heated to redness. 
liver-wing (liv'er-wiug), . In cookery, the 
right wing of a bird having the liver tucked 
into it in cooking, preferred by epicures. 
Mr. Pumblechook helped me to the liner wing and to 
the best slice of tongue. Dickem, (ireat Expectations, xix. 
liverwort (liv'er- wert), w. [< ME. livertcort ; 
< lirer* + worfl.] 1. Any plant of the crypto- 
gamic family Hepnticw. In general appearance thi-y 
differ from mosses in having the steins bilateral, and the 
leaves usually two-ranked, though often there are rudi- 
iin-riis of a third rank, never with a midvein. 
2. One of several other plants that suggest the 
liver by their form, or are supposed to be useful 
in diseases of the liver. Among them are the com- 
mon agrimony. Ayriwonia Eupatoria, and the liverleaf, 
Anemone Hepatica. -Horned liverwort, a name some- 
times given to any of the plants of the order Attthocera- 
tacetK of the family Hejmticae. They are small, terrestrial, 
annual plants, with flaccid thallose vegetation, and bi- 
valved, mostly erect, pod-like capsules. Also called horn- 
wort. - Noble liverwort, Aiieinotie Hepatica. (See also 
irrtntiul-liveruiort,ntoiie-liveriffart,water-liverwort,wood-livcr- 
imrt.) 
livery 1 (liv'er-i), a. [< lirer 2 + -.1/1.] Resem- 
bling the liver: as, a livery color, texture, etc. 
livery 2 (liv'er-i), a.; pi. Urerien (-iz). [< ME. 
lirercy, lyverpy, lirf-ray, liveree, lyrery, lyvcre, ler- 
erie, lecere (= Sp. librea = It. lirrea = ML. refl. 
livered, lirreia), livery, < AF. liveric, lirerec, OF. 
liveree, livree, F. livree, delivery, livery, < ML. li- 
lierata, delivery, livery, lit. a thing delivered, 
fern. (sc. res, a thing) of UberatUS, pp. of liberure, 
give up, deliver : see liver 3 .'] If. Delivery; al- 
lowance; grant; permission. 
Saie, what are je that makis here maistrie, 
To loose thes bestis with-oute leverie? 
York Plays, p. 203. 
2. In lair: (a) The act of giving possession; de- 
livery. Chiefly used in the phrase livery of seizin that 
is, the act of putting a person in corporal possession of a 
freehold by giving him the ring, latch, or key of the door ; 
or, if land, by delivering him a turf or twig, accompanied 
by a form of words or (as always in later times) a written 
document expressing the transfer of possession ; or, in 
either case, doing any act before witnesses which clearly 
places the party in possession. It formerly accompanied all 
conveyances of k>nd, but is now confined in England to 
that conveyance called a feoffment. It is unknown in 
American law. 
Alienation of feudal holdings, when it came to be al- 
lowed, was subject to the condition of being notorious. 
This was assured by requiring an actual delivery of pos 
session before witnesses and on the land itself : a proceed- 
ing accompanied with different forms in different coun- 
tries and districts, and known by the general name of in- 
vestiture. In England it was called livery of seisin. 
F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 72. 
(b) The charter or deed of possession accom- 
panying the delivery. 3f. Release from con- 
straint or control ; deliverance. 
Death fewer liveries gives 
Than life. Chapman. 
It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the 
unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. Hilton. 
4t. Delivery (of blows). 
W illiam as a wod man was euer here A there, 
A leide on swiche liiiere leue me forsothe 
That his dales were don that of him hent a dent. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3822. 
5. (a) An allowance of food or other provisions 
statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to 
servants, to horses, etc. 
Kdward IV.'s Esquiers for the Body, 1111, had "for 
wynter lyuerey from All Ualluwentide (Sov. 1) tyll Kstyr, 
liveryman 
one percher wax, one candell wax, ij candells Paris, one 
tallwood and dimidium, and wages in the countyng- 
house." Quoted in Batees Book(E. E. T. S.), p. all. 
(b) Keeping on a certain or regular allowance at 
a certain rate; regular keeping and attendance: 
now used only of horses : as, to keep a horse at 
liri-fi/. 
What Lioerye is, we by common use in England Jmw 
well enough, namelye that it is allowaiince of horse- meate, 
as they commonly use the woord in stabling: as, to keepe 
horses at lirery ; the which woord, I geess, is derived of 
livering or delivering foorth tbeyr nightly* foode. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
6. (a) A regular distribution of uniform gar- 
ments, badges, etc ., to any body of men ; hence, 
a uniform style prescribed for the dress of a 
body of servants, followers, or associates. 
Commaunde 36 that jourc gentilmen yomen and other 
dayly here and were there robis in joure presence, and 
namely at the mete, for 30111-6 worshyppe, and not oolde 
roliis and not cordyng to the lyiifrey, Bother were they 
i.lde Bchoon ne fylyd. Babees lionk (E. E. T. 8.), p. 329. 
The term linery was . . . gradually restricted to the 
gift of clothing, the gift of food and provisions being known 
as allowances or corrodies ; the clothing took the charac- 
ter of uniform or badge of service. As it was a proof of 
power to have a large attendance of servants and depen- 
dents, the lords literally granted their lively to all who 
wished to wear it, and the wearing of the livery became a 
sign of clientship or general dependence. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist, 470. 
(h) A badge, cognizance, garment, or entire 
costume of uniform fashion formerly marking 
the retainers of a feudal lord, the followers of 
a military superior, or the members of a com- 
pany, as a gild or corporation ; at the present 
time, the dress worn by servants, especially 
men servants, when of peculiar fashion and in- 
dicating whom it is that they serve. Such liveries 
usually take their colors from the heraldic tinctures used 
in the armorial bearings, or with modifications. Thus, if 
the master's arms include a field or, the color of the liv- 
ery-coat, instead of yellow, may be drab ; so in England 
red, being the color of the royal livery, is avoided by all 
subjects, and maroon or chocolate is substituted for it 
when gules is prominent in the anus of the employer. 
(c) Figuratively, any characteristic dress, or a 
dress assumed for or worn upon a particular oc- 
casion ; hence, characteristic covering or out- 
ward appearance : as, the livery of May or of 
autumn. 
The spring, the summer. 
The childing autumn, angry winter, change 
Their wonted Uvmat. Shat., M. N. D., it 1. 113. 
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 
Miltnn, P. L, iv. 599. 
7. A livery-stable. [U. S.] 8. Same as lit- 
ery company: as, the London lirerics. Livery 
companies. ' See company. Livery of seizin, the de- 
livery of property into possession. See def. 2(a). Stat- 
ute of Liveries, see statute. To sue one's livery, 
In old Eng. law, to issue the writ which lay for the heir 
to obtain the seizin of his lands from the king. 
He came but to be Duke of Lancaster, 
To nte his livery and beg his peace. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 3. B2. 
livery 2 (liv'er-i), r. *. ; pret. and pp. lireried, 
ppr. lii'eryiiiff. [< livery^, .] To clothe in or 
as if in livery. 
His rudeness so with his authorized youth 
Did livery falseness in a pride of truth. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 105. 
He had 116 servants in liverys. eveiy one liveried in 
greene sattin doublets. Emlyn. Diary, Nov. 3, 1833. 
livery-coat (liv'er-i-kot), . A coat forming 
part of a livery-dress especially, in modern 
times, of that of a man servant. 
livery-collar (liv'er-i-kol'ar), H. A collar of 
an order or of honorary distinction, as the col- 
lar of SS, the collar of the Bath, etc. 
livery-colors (liv'er-i-kul"orz), w. pi. Colors 
adopted by a person or family of rank and im- 
portance for the livery of the household, and 
also for decorative purposes. Thus, the colors of 
the Tudor princes of England were white and green 
(BouteU), those of the Stuarts scarlet and gold, etc. 
livery-cupboard (liv'er-i-kub"erd), . A stand 
with two or three shelves formerly used in the 
dining-room, on which the liveries (food, drink, 
etc.) intended for distribution were placed. 
livery-fish (liv'er-i-fish), H. A North of Ire- 
land name of the striped wrasse. 
livery-gown (liv'er-i-goun), w. The gown 
forming part of a livery-dress, especially that 
worn by a London liveryman. 
liveryman (liv'er-i-man), H.; pi. lirerymen 
(-men). 1. One who wears a livery; specifi- 
cally, a freeman of the City of London, who, 
"laving paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the 
characteristic dress or livery of the company 
to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain 
other privileges, as the right to vote in the elec- 
tion of the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, 
etc. 2. One who keeps a livery-stable. 
