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LIV'E-IN-IDLENESS. See Viola. . 
LIV'E-LONG. See Telephium. 
LI'VELESS, adj. Wanting life; rather lifclef t 
Defcription cannot fuit itfelf in words. 
To demonftrate the life of fuch a battle, 
In life fo livelefs as it fhows itfelf. Shakefpeare. 
LIVELIHOOD,/, [corrupted from Livelode.] Sup¬ 
port of life ; maintenance ; means of living.—'Trade em¬ 
ploys multitudes of hands, and furnillies the pooreft of 
our fellow-fubjefts with the opportunities of gaining an 
honeft livelihood. Addifon. 
Ah ! lucklefs babe ! born under cruel (far. 
And in dead parents’ baleful afhes bred ; 
Full little weened thou what forrows are 
Left thee for portion of thy livelihood! Fairy Queen. 
LIVELINESS, f. Appearance of life.—That livelinefs 
which the freedom of the pencil makes appear, may feem 
the living hand of nature. Drydeiis Dufrefnoy. —Vivacity j 
fprightlinefs.—Extravagant young fellows, that have live¬ 
linefs and fpirit, come lometimes to be fet right, and fo 
make able and great men 5 but tame and low Ipirits very 
feldom attain to any thing. Locke. 
LI'VELODE, /. [ live, and lode, from lead ; the means 
of leading life.] Maintenance 5 fupport; livelihood ; 
She gave like bleding to each creature. 
As well of worldly livelode as of life, 
That there might be no difference nor ftrife. Hubberd. 
LIV'ELONG, adj. Tedious ; long in pafTing ; entire.— 
The obf'cur’d bird clamour’d the livelong night. Shakefpeare. 
Seek for pleafure to deftroy 
The forrows of this livelong night. Prior. 
How could (he fit the livelong day. 
Yet never afk us once to play ? Swift, 
Many a time, and oft, 
Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements. 
Your infants in your arms; and there have fate 
The livelong day, with patient expectation. 
To fee great Pompey pafs. Shakefpeare's Julius Cafar. 
Lading; durable. Not ufed : 
Thou, in our wonder and adonidiment. 
Haft built thyfelf a livelong monument. Milton. 
LI'VELY, adj. [from life and like.] Brifk ; vigorous; 
vivacious: 
.But wherefore comes old Manoa in fuch hade, 
With youthful fteps; much livelier than ere while 
He feems ; fuppofing here to find his fon, 
Or of him bringing to us fome glad news ? Milton. 
Gay.; airy : 
Dulnefs, delighted, ey’d the lively dunce, 
Rememb’ring fhe herfeif was Pertnefs once. Pope. 
Jfeprefenting life.—Since a true knowledge of nature gives 
us pleafure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting 
mult produce a much greater. Dryden's Dufrefnoy. —Strong; 
energetic.—The colours of the prifm are manifeftly more 
Tull, intenfe, and lively, than thofe of natural bodies. 
Newton's Optics. —Imprint upon their minds, by proper ar¬ 
guments and refleftions, a lively perfuafion of the cer¬ 
tainty of a future ftate. Alterbury. 
LI'VELY, properly Li velily, adv. Brifkly; vigoroufly. 
—They brought their men to the dough, who, difcharg- 
ing lively almoft clofe to the face of the enemy, did much 
amaze them. Hayward. —With drong refemblance of life. 
—That part of poetry mud needs be bed, which defcribes 
1110ft lively our aftions and padie-ns, our virtues and our 
vices. Dryden. 
LI'VELYHEAD,/. Living form: 
If in that picture dead 
Such life ye read and virtue in vaine (how : 
What mote ye weene, if the trew' livelyhead 
.Of that molt glorious vil’age ye did vevv. Spevfir, 
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LIV'ENEN, a narrow valley of Swiflerland, at the foot of 
Mount St. Gothard, about twenty miles in length, watered 
by feveral fmall rivers and lakes; ceded by the duke of 
Milan to the canton of Uri in 14.41. The inhabitants 
are in number about 12,000 ; they /peak a corrupt Italian ; 
are fober, robuft, and ingenious, but indolent. The in¬ 
habitants of this valley, who may be deemed the defend¬ 
ants of the ancient Lepontii, have been hardly treated by 
their fovereigns, and have often endeavoured to free them- 
felves, but in vain; and, in 1755, the canton of Uri, af- 
fifted by the other cantons, difarmed them and deprived 
them of their ancient privileges. Faido is the principal 
place. 
LIVEN'SK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Voronez: eighty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Voronez. 
Lat. 50. 25. N. Ion. 38. 10. E. 
LIVEN'SK (Niznei), a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Voronez : thirty-fix miles weft-fouth-weft of Vo¬ 
ronez. Lat. 51.8. N. Ion. 38. 14. E. 
LIVEN'ZA, a river of Italy, which rifes near Polce- 
nigo, and empties itfelf into the Gulf of Venice feventeen 
miles eaft of Trevigio. 
LIV'ER,/. One who lives: 
Be thy affeCtions undifturb’d and clear. 
Guided to what may great or good appear. 
And try if life be worth the liver's, care. Prior. 
One who lives in any particular manner with refpeCt to 
virtue or vice, happinefs or mifery.—The end of his 
defcent was to gather a church of holy Chriftjan livers 
over the whole world. Hammond’s Fundamentals. —If any 
loofe liver have any goods of his own, the Iheriff is to feizc 
thereupon. Spenfer on Ireland.-—Here are the wants of 
children, of diftrafted perfons, of fturdy wandering beg¬ 
gars and loofe diforderly livers, at one view reprefented. 
Atterbury. — [From lipepe, Sax.] One of the entrails. See 
the article Anatomy, vol. i. p. 615. 
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come : 
And let my liver rather heat with wine. 
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Shakefpeare. 
Plato, and others of the ancients, fix the principle of 
love in the liver; whence the Latin proverb, Cogit amare 
jecur-, and in this fenfe Horace frequently ufes the word ; 
as when he fays, Si torrere jecur quarus Idoneum. The 
Greeks, from its concave figure, called it wag, “ vaulted, 
fufpended ;” the Latins call it jecur, q. d . juxta cor, as be¬ 
ing “ near the heart.” The French call it foye, from foyer, 
focus, or “ fireplace ;” agreeable to the doftrine of the an¬ 
cients, who believed the blood to be boiled and prepared 
in it. Erafiftratus, at firft, called it parenchyma, i. e. ef- 
fufion or mafs of blood ; and Hippocrates, by way of emi¬ 
nence, frequently calls it the hypochondrium. 
LIV'ER of Antimony, Arsenic, and Sulphur. See 
the article Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 150. 
LIV'ER-CASE, f. The furgeon’s phrafe for a diforder 
arifing front an obtfruftion in the liver. 
LIV'ER-COLOUR,/. The colour of the liver; the 
dark red. 
LIV'ER-COLOUR, adj. Dark red.—The upperntoft 
ltratum is of gravel; then clay of various colours, pur¬ 
ple, blue, red, liver-colour. Woodward. 
LIV'ER-COLOURED, adj. Coloured like the liver j 
dark red. 
LIV'ER-GROWN, adj. Having a great liver.—I en¬ 
quired what other ca/ualties were moft like the rickets; 
and found that liver-grown was neareft. Graunt. 
LIV'ER-STONE. See the article Mineralogy. 
LIV'ER-WORT, f. A plant.—That fort of liver-wort 
which is ufed to cure the bite of mad dogs, grows on 
commons, and open heaths, where the grafs is Ihort, on 
declivities, and on the fides of pits. This fpreads on the 
furface of the ground, and, when in perfection, is of an 
afti-colour ; but, as it grows old, it alters, and becomes 
of a dark colour. Miller. —See Anemone and Lichen. 
LIVER-W.ORT (Marfli). See Riccia. 
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