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[For etym. see def.] A fabulous bird, supposed to have given its name to Liverpool, and to be still commemorated in the arms of that town. "It has been variously called a dove, a shoveler duck, an eagle, and a hypothetical bird, the liver , to which the name of the town has been traditionally ascribed.. In deriving the name of a town from an imaginary bird, which was unknown long after the town had a common seal, we have a remarkable instance of putting the cart before the horse." Attempts have also been made to identify the liver with the Cormorant or the Glo y Ibis. Liver. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wět, here, camel, her, there ; or, wöre, wolf, work, whô, sốn; müte, cub, cüre, unite, cûr, rûle, full; try, Sýrian. ae, 9. Any characteristic dre , garb, or appearance. 10. Outward appearance; aspect. "The beauteous livery that he wore." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 1,107. IMG:content-0647.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0648.jpg:[blocks in formation] 4. Producing life, animation, action, or vigor. "Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?" Shakesp.: Richard II ., i. 2. C. As substantive: 1. The state of being alive; life, existence. "To spend her living in eternal love." A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Livonia; Lettish. B. As substantive: IMG:content-0649.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0650.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0651.jpg:[blocks in formation] *11-vor, s . [Lat.] Malignity, malice. 11-vrai-son, s . [Fr., from livrer =to deliver.] A part of a book or other literary composition printed and delivered before the work is completed. livre, s. [Fr., from Lat. libra a pound.) An old French money of account, now superseded by the franc, to which it was about equal in value. lix-Iv'-I-al, a. [Lat. lixivius , from lixivium , from lix =wood-ashes; Fr. lixiviel ; Sp. lexivial .] 1. Obtained by lixiviation (q. v.). lix-Iv'-I-ate, lix-Iv'-I-at-ed, a . [Lat. lixivium .] 1. Of or pertaining to lye; having the qualities of alkaline salts. 2. Impregnated with salts extracted from wood- ashes; obtained by lixiviation. lix-Iv'-i-ate, v . t . [LIXIVIATE, a.] To treat by the proce of lixiviation; to form into lye; to im- pregnate with alkaline salts extracted from wood- ashes. IMG:content-0652.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0653.png:[blocks in formation] Geol.: Dark-colored micaceous flags, found in the Lower Silurian formations of Great Britain, frequently calcareous, resting on a great thickne of shales, generally of a black color below them, and this again on black carbonate freat on shale of mina, and sometimes beds of anthracite, resulting probably from the decomposition, not of plants, but of graptolites, about forty species of which have been found in the Llandeilo-flags and the Arenig beds. [LLANDEILO-FORMATION. Among these, graptolites with two rows of cells (Dip log raps us, .) are conspicuous. About forty-seven Brachiopod a are found, and of other mollusks Orthoceras, Cyrtaceras, and Bellerophon. Trilobites abound. Llandeilo-formation, s. Geol.: A formation of Lower Silurian age. As originally marked out by Sir Roderick Murchison, it fell naturally under two divisions, an Upper.containing the Llandeilo-flags (q.v.), and a Lower, now called the Arenig or Stiperstone group. According to Prof. Ramsay, the two together are 3,300 feet thick in North Wales, and the lavas (which are felspathic and porphyritic), 2,500. Llăn-dov-er-ỹ, s. [Sce def.] Geog.: A town in South Wales, county of Car mar then. Llandovery-group, s . Geol.: A group of rocks found in the hill of Noeth Grug, near Llandovery. Sir Roderick Murchison divided it into an Upper and a Lower Llandovery, the first sometimes called the May Hill group. Sir Charles Lyell believes that they constitute the base of the Upper Silurian, being at the same time beds of pa age to the Lower. The beds of conglomerate, ., constituting the greater part of the Lower Llandovery Rocks, are from 600 to 1,000 feet thick.