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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Liver \Liv"er\, n. 1. One who or that which lives. And try if life be worth the liver's care --Prior. 2. A resident; a dweller; as a liver in Brooklyn. 3. One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as a free liver. {Fast liver}, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way {Free liver}, {Good liver}, one given to the pleasures of the table. {Loose liver}, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Liver \Liv"er\, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw lefver, and perh. to Gr ? fat, E. live, v.] (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates. Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side See {Bile}, {Digestive}, and {Glycogen}. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates. {Floating liver}. See {Wandering liver}, under {Wandering}. {Liver of antimony}, {Liver of sulphur}. (Old Chem.) See {Hepar}. {Liver brown}, {Liver color}, the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown. {Liver shark} (Zo["o]l.), a very large shark ({Cetorhinus maximus}), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also {basking shark}, {bone shark}, {hoemother}, {homer}, and {sailfish} From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Liver \Liv"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The glossy ibis ({Ibis falcinellus}); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: liver n 1: large reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism 2: liver of an animal used as meat 3: someone who lives in a place "a liver in cities" From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Liver (Heb. kabhed "heavy;" hence the liver, as being the heaviest of the viscera, Ex 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4, 1, 10, 15) was burnt upon the altar, and not used as sacrificial food. In Ezek. 21:21 there is allusion, in the statement that the king of Babylon "looked upon the liver," to one of the most ancient of all modes of divination. The first recorded instance of divination (q.v.) is that of the teraphim of Laban. By the teraphim the LXX. and Josephus understood "the liver of goats." By the "caul above the liver," in Lev. 4:9; 7:4, etc., some understand the great lobe of the liver itself From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name -- liver, the thing we live with The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg _pate_.
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