A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1475-1500, 1568-1595
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Lever, n.1 Also: levar, -ir, lewer. [Late north. ME. and e.m.E. levyr (Towneley Plays); var. of Liver n. with usual change of î > ē as in Evil, etc. (but cf. MDu. lēver, lēvere and Sw. lefver, Da. lever). See also Lever-ill n.] The liver of a person or animal.c 1420 Liber Calchou 449.
In man ar iij principal partis and membris, the hart, the leuer & the harnys c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ii. 409.
Our thourch his rybbis a seker straik drewe he, Quhill leuir and lounggis men mycht all redy se a1500 Henr. III. 117/54.
My hairt is haill, my lever and my splene a1500 King Hart 910.
I leif … To gluttony … This meikle wambe this rottin levir als1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 33.
Oppin that vaine of the leuer quhilk is situat in the inuart part of the arme1568 Ib. 25.
Lewer1579 Despauter (1579).
Hepar, the leuer 1595 Misc. Spald. C. II. 130.
Tua scheipis leuaris, tua hartis, with luingis and lichtingis
