(Hebrews kabhed, "heavy;" hence the liver, as being the heaviest of the viscera, Exodus 29:13, 22; Leviticus 3:4, 1, 10, 15) was burnt upon the altar, and not used as sacrificial food. In Ezek. 21:21 there is allusion, in the statement that the king of Babylon "looked upon the liver," to one of the most ancient of all modes of divination. The first recorded instance of divination (q.v.) is that of the teraphim of Laban. By the teraphim the LXX. and Josephus understood "the liver of goats." By the "caul above the liver," in Leviticus 4:9; 7:4, etc., some understand the great lobe of the liver itself.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) One who, or that which, lives.

2. (n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

3. (n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.

4. (n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

5. (n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.