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liver noun2. LME.
[from LIVE verb + -ER1.]
A person who lives or is alive (now rare). Also (chiefly US), a resident, a dweller. LME.
b. = LIVIER 1a. Canad. M18.
With qualifying adjective: a person who lives in a specified way, for a long time, etc. LME.
Hugh Walpole To be an artist was..synonymous with being a loose liver and an atheist. D. Hewett The Brewsters were long livers. The old man looked good for another thirty years.
Phrases: free liver: see FREE adjective. good liver (a) a virtuous person; (b) a person given to good living.