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A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals.

A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

peals handed down its decision. -- To hand over, to yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up.

A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the firs…

The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.

To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!" Shak.

Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

rocumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

Inflammation of the liver.

Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

Hernia of the liver.

Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.

Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.

Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.

Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.

Hateful; shocking. "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." Shak.