Obs. Also 4 livrere, 6 Sc. liverair. [? a. OF. livreure delivery, deliverance, f. livre-r LIVER v.] = LIVERY sb. in various senses.
c. 1330. Amis. & Amil., 1640. He … feched her livrere eueri day, To her liues fode.
1548. W. Patten, Exped. Scotl., Pref. cviij. Their perfit appointment of sure armour,… & their sumptuous sutes of liuerers beside.
1549. Compl. Scot., xvii. 148. There is diuerse princis that gyffis … leuerairis, armis ande heretage to them that hes committit vailȝeant actis in the veyris.
c. 1650. Merline, 306, in Furnivall, Percy Folio, I. 432. That they wold wend to Vortiger & aske him meede & liverr [read liverer].
