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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Liver, n.2 Also: leivar. [e.m.E. liver (1553), F. livre.] The French pound, an old French money of account, orig. valued at one pound of silver and divided into 20 sols (or sous). —1661 Edinb. Test. LXX. 25 b.
James McGill … granted … to the defuncts vtilitie and behoove the sowme of vj s[core] leivars & money at ij marks scottes the leivar 1678 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 255.
The doytis and dinneires that wer lying in the clarkis chamber, extending to two hundreth threttie four livers ten sous 1685 Paterson Sc. Arithm. (1685) 9.
The Flemish keep their account the same way by livers, soulds and deniers; the liver or pound being 7 of ours. As also the French, their liver being 18 sh. Scots, and at Florence and Legorn the liver being 9 sh. Scots
