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One who wears a livery, as a servant.

Alive; living; with life. [Obs.] " Any lives creature." Chaucer.

Acclivous. [Obs.]

n a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

Forthwith; speedily; quickly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

Quickly; forthwith. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. [Obs.] Shak.

See Cleavers.

The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

ee; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezek. xxxiii. 5. Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. Milton.

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

A female de [R.] Evelyn.

Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.] Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.

Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.

To enliven. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.