'Liver' definitions:
Definition of 'liver'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having a reddish-brown color [syn: liver-colored, liver]
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
A person who has a special life style; "a high liver"
noun
Someone who lives in a place; "a liver in cities"
Definition of 'Liver'
From: GCIDE
- Liver \Liv"er\, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. ? fat, E. live, v.] (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates. [1913 Webster]
- Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
- Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar.
- Liver brown, Liver color, the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown.
- Liver shark (Zool.), a very large shark ({Cetorhinus maximus}), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes referred to as whale shark, but that name is more commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even larger.
- Liver spots, yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots of chloasma. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Liver'
From: GCIDE
- Liver \Liv"er\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, lives. [1913 Webster]
- And try if life be worth the liver's care. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver. [1913 Webster]
- Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way.
- Free liver, Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table.
- Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Liver'
From: GCIDE
- Liver \Liv"er\ (l[i^]v"[~e]r), n. (Zool.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'liver'
From: Easton
- Liver (Heb. kabhed, "heavy;" hence the liver, as being the heaviest of the viscera, Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4, 1, 10, 15) was burnt upon the altar, and not used as sacrificial food. In Ezek. 21:21 there is allusion, in the statement that the king of Babylon "looked upon the liver," to one of the most ancient of all modes of divination. The first recorded instance of divination (q.v.) is that of the teraphim of Laban. By the teraphim the LXX. and Josephus understood "the liver of goats." By the "caul above the liver," in Lev. 4:9; 7:4, etc., some understand the great lobe of the liver itself.
Synonyms of 'liver'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- abdomen,
- absorption,
- anus,
- appendix,
- assimilation,
- bile,
- blind gut,
- bowels,
- brain,
- brains,
- cecum,
- chitterlings,
- cholangitis,
- cholecystitis,
- cirrhosis,
- cockscomb,
- colon,
- denizen,
- digestion,
- digestive system,
- duodenum,
- dweller,
- endocardium,
- entrails,
- foregut,
- gastric juice,
- gastrointestinal tract,
- giblets,
- gizzard,
- guts,
- haslet,
- heart,
- hepatitis,
- hepatoma,
- hindgut,
- icterus,
- infectious hepatitis,
- ingestion,
- innards,
- inner mechanism,
- insides,
- internals,
- intestinal juice,
- intestine,
- inwards,
- jaundice,
- jejunum,
- kidney,
- kidneys,
- kishkes,
- large intestine,
- liver and lights,
- lung,
- marrow,
- midgut,
- occupant,
- pancreas,
- pancreatic digestion,
- pancreatic juice,
- perineum,
- predigestion,
- pump,
- pylorus,
- rectum,
- resident,
- resider,
- saliva,
- salivary digestion,
- salivary glands,
- secondary digestion,
- serum hepatitis,
- small intestine,
- spleen,
- stomach,
- sweetbread,
- ticker,
- tongue,
- tripe,
- tripes,
- vermiform appendix,
- viscera,
- vitals,
- works
Words containing 'Liver'
- Livered,
- Livering,
- Cod liver,
- Fast liver,
- Fatty liver,
- Floating liver,
- Free liver,
- Good liver,
- High liver,
- Hobnail liver,
- Liver brown,
- Liver color,
- Liver of antimony,
- Liver of sulphur,
- Liver shark,
- Liver spots,
- Loose liver,
- Nutmeg liver,
- Wandering liver,
- Waxy liver,
- calf's liver,
- calves' liver,
- cancer of the liver,
- chicken liver,
- cirrhosis of the liver,
- goose liver,
- lily livered,
- liver cancer,
- liver chestnut,
- liver disease,
- liver fluke,
- liver pudding,
- liver rot,
- liver sausage,
- liver spot,
- Free-liver,
- Hot-livered,
- Lily-livered,
- Liver-colored,
- Liver-grown,
- Milk-livered,
- Pigeon-livered,
- White-livered,
- central veins of liver,
- cod liver oil,
- Cod-liver oil,
- fish-liver oil,
- halibut-liver oil,
- liver-spotted dalmatian,
- shark-liver oil