liver
/ˈlɪvɚ/ noun B1- A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. · Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
- 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.
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Plural livers
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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.
Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
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.”
I’m glad it ain’t your liver.
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