LIVER

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, lives. And try if life be worth the liver's care. Prior.

2.
n.

A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

3.
n.

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

4.
n.

A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

5.
n.

The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.


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