liver

noun7

1. •
   a large part inside the body that takes poisons out of the blood and stores food

   • Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
2. •
   This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

   • I'd like some goose liver pate.
   • You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
3. •
   Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).

   • a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man[…]. — 1624
4. •
   Someone who is alive: one of the living.

   • When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings. — 1592
5. •
   Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.

   • They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place. — 1677
6. •
   A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
7. •
   (no longer used) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.

   • He gave his horse some liver of antimony.

adjective1

1. •
   Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).

   • His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white. — 2006

adjective1

1. •
   (rare) From or pertaining to Liverpool.