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liv⋅er

1 [liv-er]

–noun

1.	Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.

2.	an organ in other animals similar to the human liver, often used as food.

3.	a diseased condition of the liver; biliousness: a touch of liver.

4.	a reddish-brown color.

5.	a rubberlike, irreversible thickening suspension occurring in paint, ink, etc., due to a chemical reaction between a colloidal pigment and a vehicle or as a result of polymerization of the vehicle.

–adjective

6.	of the color of liver.

–verb (used without object)

7.	(of paint, ink, etc.) to undergo irreversible thickening.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE lifer, c. D lever, G Leber, ON lifr; perh. akin to Gk liparós fat

Related forms:

liv⋅er⋅less, adjective

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liv⋅er

2 [liv-er]

–noun

1.	a person who lives in a manner specified: an extravagant liver.

2.	a dweller or resident; inhabitant.

Origin:
1325–75; ME; see live ¹ , -er ¹

liv⋅er

3 [lahy-ver]

–adjective

comparative of live ² .

live

2 [lahyv]

adjective, liv⋅er, liv⋅est for 4–7, 13–15, adverb

–adjective

1.	being alive; living; alive: live animals.

2.	of, pertaining to, or during the life of a living being: the animal's live weight.

3.	characterized by or indicating the presence of living creatures: the live sounds of the forest.

4.	Informal. (of a person) energetic; alert; lively: The club members are a really live bunch.

5.	full of life, energy or activity: His approach in any business dealing is live and fresh.

6.	burning or glowing: live coals in the fireplace.

7.	having resilience or bounce: a live tennis ball.

8.	being in play, as a baseball or football.

9.	loaded or unexploded, as a cartridge or shell: live ammunition.

10.	made up of actual persons: to perform before a live audience.

11.	(of a radio or television program) broadcast while happening or being performed; not prerecorded or taped: a live telecast.

12.	being highly resonant or reverberant, as an auditorium or concert hall.

13.	vivid or bright, as color.

14.	of current interest or importance, as a question or issue; controversial; unsettled.

15.	moving or imparting motion; powered: the live head on a lathe.

16.	still in use, or to be used, as type set up or copy for printing.

17.	Also, alive. Electricity. electrically connected to a source of potential difference, or electrically charged so as to have a potential different from that of earth: a live wire.

–adverb

18.	(of a radio or television program) at the moment of its happening or being performed; not on tape or by prerecording: a program broadcast live.

—Idiom

19.

live one, Slang.

a.	a person who spends money readily.

b.	a person easily imposed upon or made the dupe of others.

Origin:
1535–45; 1930–35 for def. 11; aph. var. of alive, used attributively

Related forms:

liveness, noun

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liv·er¹ (lĭv'ər)

Anatomy A large, reddish-brown, glandular vertebrate organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity that secretes bile and is active in the formation of certain blood proteins and in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
An organ in invertebrates that is similar to the vertebrate liver.
The bile-secreting organ of an animal, used as food.
A dark reddish brown.

adj.

Made of or flavored with liver: liver pâté; liver sandwiches.
Of a dark reddish brown.

[Middle English, from Old English lifer; see leip- in Indo-European roots.]

liv·er² (lĭv'ər)

n. One who lives in a specified manner: a high liver.

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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.

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 .

Liver spots, yellowish brown patches or spots of chloasma.

Liver

Liv"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

Language Translation for : liver

Spanish: hígado,

German: die Leber,

Japanese: 肝臓

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liver

A large organ, located on the right side of the abdomen and protected by the lower rib cage, that produces bile and blood proteins, stores vitamins for later release into the bloodstream, removes toxins (including alcohol) from the blood, breaks down old red blood cells, and helps maintain levels of blood sugar in the body.

liver

"secreting organ of the body," O.E. lifer, from P.Gmc. *librn (cf. O.N. lifr, O.Fris. livere, M.Du. levere, O.H.G. lebara, Ger. Leber "liver"), perhaps lit. "fatten up." In M.E. it rivaled the heart as the supposed seat of love and passion, hence lily-livered (see lily).

Main Entry: liv·er
Pronunciation: 'liv-&r
Function: noun
1 a : a large very vascular glandular organ of vertebrates that secretes bile andcauses important changes in many of the substances contained in the blood which passes through it (as by converting sugars into glycogen which it stores up until required and by forming urea), that inhumans is the largest gland in the body, weighs from 40 to 60 ounces (1100 to 1700 grams), is a dark red color, and occupies the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity immediately below thediaphragm, that is divided by fissures into five lobes, and that receives blood both from the hepatic artery and the portal vein and returns it to the systemic circulation by the hepatic veins b : any of various large compound glands associated with the digestive tract of invertebrate animals and prob. concerned with the secretion of digestive enzymes
2 : the liver of an animal (as a calf or pig) eaten as food and used as a source of pharmaceutical products (as liver extract)
3 : disease or disorder of the liver : BILIOUSNESS

liver liv·er (lĭv'ər)
n.
The largest gland of the body, lying beneath the diaphragm in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity, which secretes bile and is active in the formation of certain blood proteins and in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

liver (lĭv'ər) Pronunciation Key

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A large glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrate animals that is essential to many metabolic processes. The liver secretes bile, stores fat and sugar as reserve energy sources, converts harmful substances to less toxic forms, and regulates the amount of blood in the body.
A similar organ of invertebrate animals.

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.

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