Definition of liver:

• The glossy ibis Ibis falcinellus; -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
• ( Heb. kabhed, " heavy;" hence the liver, as being the heaviest of the viscera, Exodus 29:13 Exodus 29:22 ; Leviticus 3:4 Leviticus 3:1 Leviticus 3:10 Leviticus 3:15 ) was burnt upon the altar, and not used as sacrificial food. In Ezekiel 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 Leviticus 4:9 ; 7:4 , etc., some understand the great lobe of the liver itself.
• 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
• liver of an animal used as meat
• someone who lives in a place; " a liver in cities"
• One who, or that which, lives.
• A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
• One whose course of life has some marked characteristic ( expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
• A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
• The glossy ibis ( Ibis falcinellus); - said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
• One who exists, dwells, etc.; an organ of the body which luses bile and causes important changes ood substances in the blood.
• Hepar, jecur; the largest gland of the body, lying beneath the diaphragm in the right hypochondrium and upper part of the epigastrium; it is of irregular shape and weighs from 3 to 3 1/ 2 pounds, or about 1/ 40 the weight of the body. It secretes the bile and is also of great importance in both carbohydrate and proteid metabolism.
• Largest glandular organ of the body, its work being the secretion of bile.
• The largest gland in the body, which secretes the bile.
• One who lives; gland which secretes the bile.
• One who lives; a dweller.
• An internal organ which secretes bile, and effects changes in the blood.
• An organ in the animal system, of a glandular structure, whose office is to secrete the bile.
• One who lives.
• The organ of the body of a deep- red colour lying under the ribs which secretes bile.
• A bilesecreting gland of vertebrates.
• [ Anglo-Saxon] The bile-secreting gland of vertebrates; digestive gland of some invertebrates.

Usage examples for liver

1. Then, madame, there was in its entrails that strange displacement of the liver which we had already observed in the first two- it was wrong side up!  Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

2. Part of the liver may be given if required.  Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge

3. S'pose I want ol' Uncle George to kick the liver out of me!  Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge

4. It's liver that's the matter with you.  A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume