liver¹ /livˈər/

1. A large gland that secretes bile, stores and filters blood, converts sugar into glycogen and performs other metabolic functions, formerly regarded as the seat of courage, love, etc
2. This organ taken from an animal's body, used for food
3. A disordered state of the liver (informal)
4. In old chemistry, a sulphide or other liver-coloured substance (liver of sulphur, a mixture obtained by heating potassium carbonate with sulphur)

Liver-colour

-livered combining form

Eg white-livered or lily-livered (literally, having a pallid, blood-starved liver), cowardly

livˈerish or livˈery adjective (old)

1. Suffering from a disordered liver
2. Irritable

livˈerishly adverb

livˈerishness noun

livˈer-colˈour noun and adjective

(of) the colour of liver, dark reddish brown

livˈer-coloured adjective

liver fluke noun

A trematode worm that infects the bile-ducts of sheep and other animals

livˈer-grown adjective

Having a swollen liver

liver rot noun

A disease caused by liver flukes

liver salts plural noun

Mineral salts taken to cure indigestion

liver sausage noun

A rich sausage made of liver

liver spot noun

A liver-coloured mark on the skin appearing in old age

livˈerwing noun

A fowl's right wing, which is cooked with the liver

livˈerwort /-wûrt/ noun

Any plant of the Hepaticae, forming with the mosses the Bryophyta, similar to a moss, growing in damp places and having leaves of a liverlike shape, some kinds having once been used medicinally in diseases of the liver

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