The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liver \Liv"er\, n.
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One who, or that which, lives.
And try if life be worth the liver's care.
--Prior. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
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One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way.
Free liver, Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table.
Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.
Usage examples of "good liver".
I sometimes thought, me, that for somebody trying so hard to bring up Lizzie to be a good Liver, Annie herself was more than a little bit donkey.
And so he rode forth, and there by the way he found a branch of an holy herb that was the sign of the Sangreal, and no knight found such tokens but he were a good liver.
I have been a good liver all my days, and I pay every man his own.
For the way on the right hand betokeneth the highway of our Lord Jesu Christ, and the way of a good true good liver.