The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . ME. liver, < AS. lifer =D. lever = MLG. lever = OHG. libara, lebara,lebera, lepera, MHG. lebere, G. leber = = Dan. lever = Sw. Iffver, liver. Cf. , the pluck of animals. Attempts havebeen made to identify liver, through the as-sumed earlier stems *lil-, *lyek, ?nith L. Jectir= Gr. iyirap {ijiraT-) = Skt. yakril, liver, themedial Teut. labial (r), in this view, havingbeen developed from an orig. guttural (A). Asimilar change appears in the
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . ME. liver, < AS. lifer =D. lever = MLG. lever = OHG. libara, lebara,lebera, lepera, MHG. lebere, G. leber = = Dan. lever = Sw. Iffver, liver. Cf. , the pluck of animals. Attempts havebeen made to identify liver, through the as-sumed earlier stems *lil-, *lyek, ?nith L. Jectir= Gr. iyirap {ijiraT-) = Skt. yakril, liver, themedial Teut. labial (r), in this view, havingbeen developed from an orig. guttural (A). Asimilar change appears in the history of four,five, and prob. eleven and twelve, as well as inwolf] 1. luoHBi., a large gland, secreting bileand performing other important metabolicfunctions, situated in the upper part of the ab-dominal ca^vity on the right side. The humanliver lies beneath the diaphragm, and weighs 50 or 60ounces. It presents a large right- and a smaller left-handlobe, and on the under surface are distinguished a quad-rate lobe, a caudate lobe, and a lobus Spigelii. The gall-bladder lies in a fissure on its under side. The liver is sup^. live-head (livhed), n. In a lathe, the moving lively (Hvli), adv. [< ME. lyvely, liflij, < AS. head-stock which contains the , . An obsolete form of (Uvli-hed), n. [Var. of liveli-hood^.] Liveliness; animation; li\ing when as Turpin saw so loosely weened well that he in deed was dead. . .But, when he nigh approcht, he mote areadPlaine signes in him of life and livelihead. Spenser, F. Q., VT. vii. 20. livelihead^t (livli-hed), «. [Var. of livelihood^,for orig. lifelode.] Way of life; little weenest thou what sorrowes areLeft thee for porcion of thy livelylted. Spenser, F. Q., II. ii. 2. litlicc, ?^^tally, < liflic, living, -vital: see lively, a.]i. In a lifelike manner; with the appearanceof reality; semblably. Wei couthe he peynte lyfty that it ?wroughte,With many a flori
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