Liver

['lɪvə] or ['lɪvɚ]

Definition

(noun.) large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes.

(noun.) liver of an animal used as meat.

(noun.) someone who lives in a place; 'a liver in cities'.

(noun.) a person who has a special life style; 'a high liver'.

Checker: Pamela--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One who, or that which, lives.

(n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

(n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.

(n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

(n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

Checked by Calvin

Definition

n. the largest gland in the body which secretes the bile.—adjs. Liv′er-col′our of the colour of the liver: dark-red; Liv′ered in compounds as white-livered lily-livered=cowardly.—n. Liver-fluke a trematoid worm (Distoma hepatica).—adj. Liv′er-grown having a swelled liver.—n. Liverwort any plant of the cryptogamic family Hepatic allied to mosses.—adj. Liv′ery resembling the liver.

Typist: Shirley

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of a disordered liver, denotes a querulous person will be your mate, and fault-finding will occupy her time, and disquiet will fill your hours. To dream of eating liver, indicates that some deceitful person has installed himself in the affection of your sweetheart.

Edited by Greg

Unserious Contents or Definition

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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Examples

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