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

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton.

White-livered; cowardly.

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

Pigeon-hearted.

; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). Shak.

on or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.

aining to a bachelor of arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

Delivered; committed in trust. [Obs.]

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

or ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.

chequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; - - called also counterstock. [Eng.]

A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.

into. Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. Gen. xl. 13. The constables have delivered her over. Shak. The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope.

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