livers

Noun (1)

liver (countable and uncountable, plural livers)

1. 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.
2. This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
   • I'd like some goose liver pate.
3. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
4. (obsolete) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
   • He gave his horse some liver of antimony.

Noun (2)

liver (plural livers)

1. (uncommon) 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
   1. (uncommon) Someone who is alive: one of the living.
      • When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.1592, Alb. Eng., Warner, VIII, xliii (1612), 206

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