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liver

/ˈlɪvɚ/ adjective C2
  1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
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If it’s your liver, there’s the _Rambler_ down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 10 · C1
I’m glad it ain’t your liver.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 11 · C1
The attitude had drawn all the stagnant blood to the face, and no man could have recognised that distorted liver-coloured countenance; but his height, his dress, and his hair were all sufficient to show my client, when we had drawn the body up, that it was indeed his missing butler.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 22 · B2
A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.
The Valley of Fear, p. 38 · C1

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