单词 | liver-grown |
释义 | > as lemmasliver-grown liver-grown adj. now historical suffering from an enlarged liver, or a liver adherent to other parts.In quot. 1645 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > disorders of liver liver-sickeOE lapidous1583 liver-shot1618 liver-grown1637 nutmeggy1843 cirrhotic1863 nutmegged1879 tight-lace1880 cirrhosed1886 loaded1897 tight-laced1905 1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's sig. V8v Aches within, and accidents without,..the Stone, Who's troubled with the Spleene, who Liver-growne, Cramps,..Even Leprosie itselfe, his medcine heales. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 11 Unlesse it be the lowest lees of a canonicall infection liver-grown to their sides. 1658 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 344 I suffered him to be opened, when they found that he was what is vulgarly called liver-grown. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlvii. 116 She was only livergrown and would in a few months be as small in the Waist as ever. 1826 A. Robertson in J. Johnson Infl. Trop. Climates European Constit. (ed. 3) 387 This tumefaction the patients attributed to the state of their liver, and believed themselves to be ‘Liver-grown’, as they expressed it. 1935 H. M. Hyatt Folk-lore Adams County, Illinois 131 A baby becomes liver-grown by lying continually in the same position. 2001 W. T. Lynch Solomon's Child vi. 215 In 1629, ninety-four liver-grown cases appeared. < as lemmas |
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