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livered, a.|ˈlɪvəd|
Also 3 lyured, 4 liuerd, lyuered, 6 leueryd.
[f. liver n.1 + -ed2.]
†1. Coagulated, clotted. livered sea = liver sea (liver n.1 7); in quot. applied to the Red Sea.
c1275XI Pains of Hell 47 in O.E. Misc. 148 Snov and is and lyured blod. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 925 Vor þo þe folc of israhel moyses wiþ him nom & ladde hom out of egipt in to þe liuerede [v.r. reed(e, rede] se. a1300Cursor M. 6506 Vr godd..þis ilk es he þat brogh(t) vs thoru þe liuerd se [Trin. þe rede see]. 13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.) 645/236 Þer was no thyng bot lyuered blode. 14..Siege Jerusalem (E.E.T.S.) 2/29 Þe lyppe lyþ on a lumpe lyuered on þe cheke.
2. Of bread: Heavy. Now dial.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 317/1 Bakers Terms..Livered, tough Bread. 1847Halliwell, Livered, heavy, or underbaked. South.
3. With prefixed adj.: Having a liver of a certain kind. (See also lily-, pigeon-, white-livered.)
1628Ford Lover's Mel. iii. ii, What a greene sicknesse⁓liuer'd Boy is this! |