liver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   someone who lives in a place

   a liver in cities

2. 2
   noun

   a person who has a special life style

   a high liver

3. 3
   noun

   A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

   Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.

4. 4
   noun

   This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

   I'd like some goose liver pate.

5. 5
   noun

   Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.

   He gave his horse some liver of antimony.

6. 6
   adj

   Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).

   His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.

7. 7
   noun

   Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).

   Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.

8. 8
   adj

   comparative form of live: more live

   Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.

Etymology

From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.