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adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift.

Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland.

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

Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.

Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.

Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.

A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. [Obs.] Chapman.

Same as Liverwort.

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

. A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).

One who wears a livery, as a servant.

pl. of Life.

or; discolored, as flesh by contusion. Cowper. There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

The state or quality of being livid.

Lividity. Walpole.

Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.

A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.

In a living state. Sir T. Browne.