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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.

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

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.