a. Also 3 lyured, 4 liuerd, lyuered, 6 leueryd. [f. LIVER sb.1 + -ED2.]

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  † 1.  Coagulated, clotted. Livered sea = liver sea (LIVER sb.1 7); in quot. applied to the Red Sea.

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c. 1275.  XI Pains of Hell, 47, in O. E. Misc., 148. Snov and is and lyured blod.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 925. Vor þo þe folc of israhel moyses wiþ him nom & ladde hom out of egipt in to þe liuerede [v.r. reed(e, rede] se.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 6506. Vr godd … þis ilk es he þat brogh(t) vs thoru þe liuerd se [Trin. þe rede see].

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13[?].  Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.), 645/236. Þer was no thyng bot lyuered blode.

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14[?].  Siege Jerusalem (E.E.T.S.), 2/29. Þe lyppe lyþ on a lumpe lyuered on þe cheke.

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  2.  Of bread: Heavy. Now dial.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 317/1. Bakers Terms … Livered, tough Bread.

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1847.  Halliwell, Livered, heavy, or underbaked. South.

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  3.  With prefixed adj.: Having a liver of a certain kind. (See also lily-, pigeon-, white-livered.)

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1628.  Ford, Lover’s Mel., III. ii. What a greene sicknesse-liuer’d Boy is this!

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