livery¹ /livˈə-ri/

1. The feeding, care, and stabling of a horse at a certain rate
2. The distinctive dress or badge of a great man's household (historical)
3. The distinctive dress or uniform of a person's servants, esp men-servants, or of a body, eg a trade guild
4. Any characteristic garb
5. The distinctive decoration used for all its aircraft, etc by an airline, etc
6. The distinctive style of dress or consistent visual appearance of employees, vehicles, communications, etc of a company
7. A body of liverymen or of livery-servants
8. A livery-servant (archaic)
9. A delivery or handing over (obsolete)
10. A dispensing or allowance of food or clothes to servants and retainers (historical)

livˈeried adjective

Clothed in livery

livery company noun

Any of the trade guilds of the City of London which assumed a distinctive dress in the 14c

livery cupboard noun

A small cupboard used for the temporary storage of food, etc

livˈeryman noun

1. A man who wears a livery
2. A freeman of the City of London entitled to wear the livery and enjoy other privileges of his company
3. A person who keeps or works at a livery stable

livery pot noun

A flask in which an allowance of wine was formerly given to a servant

livˈery-servant noun

A servant who wears a livery

livery stable noun

A stable where horses are kept at livery and for hire

at livery

Of a horse, kept at the owner's expense at a livery stable

sue one's livery (Shakespeare)

To ask for the writ delivering a freehold into the possession of its heir

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

livˈerwurst /-wûrst/ noun

Liver sausage

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