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Lily-livered. 1 99 Limb.
of me, and were taken in by my swagger,
I always knew that I was a LILY-LIVER,
and expected that I should be found out
some day.
LILY- LIVERED, adj. (old).-cowardly;
dastardly.
1605-6. SHAKSPEARE, King Lear,
ii. 2. OSW. What dost thou know me
for ? Kent. A knave ; a rascal ; a LILY-
LIVERED, action-taking knave.
1857. A. TROLLOPE, Barchester
Lowers, xiv. You will not be so LILY-LI-
VERED as to fall into this trap which he has
baited for you.
LILY OF Sr. CLEMENTS. See ST.
CLEMENTS.
LILY-SHALLOW, subs. (common).-A
white driving hat.-GRosE (1823).
LI LYWHITE, subs. (old).-I. A
negro ; a chimney-sweep.
1690. B. E., Did. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
LILLY WHITE, a chimney sweep.
1819. MOORE, Torn Crib, 45. Show
the LILYWHITES fair play.
2. in pl. (military).-The Seventeenth
Foot [from its facings].
Also, BENGAL TIGERS (q.v.).
Also, the Fifty-ninth Foot.
LILLYWHITE GROAT, subs. (common).
-A shilling. For synonyms see
BOB.
1894. Daily Bourse, 13 Sept., p. 1.
For instance, a 'man,' starting with 6s.
a week, and, after six years, finding
himself in possession of weekly wages
amounting to 19s., say nineteen shillings,
can assuredly have no legitimate cause for
complaint . . . . Fancy nineteen LILLY-
WHITE GROAT' a week, and not to be
satisfied !
LI MB, subs. (old).- I . A mischievous
child ; an imp. Also (in depreciation
to older persons) LIMB OF
SATAN &C.
1589. NASHE, Martin's Month's
Mind [GRosART (1883-4), i. 155]. He that
is termed Satan. . . . and a very umm
of him.
1625. JoNsoN, Stable of News, iii.
2. She had it from a LIMB o' the school,
she says, a little limb of nine year old.
1706. R. EsTcouRT, Fair Exanifile,
iii. 2. p. 34. Blood and thunder ! I'll
broil ye, you LIMB OF SATAN.
1815. SCOTT, Guy Man nering,
xxxiv. Meg Merrilies, the old DEVIL'S
Limn of a gipsy witch.
1862. CALVERLEY, Verses 63. , Translations,
p. 7. He was what nurses call
a LIMB.
1864. Derby Day, p. 68. You LIMB
OF BRIMSTONE; just let MC get hold of you.
1880. G. R. Sims, Ballads of Babylon
(Little Yitn). Our little Jim Was
such a LIMB His mother scarce could
manage him.
1892. ANSTEY, Model Music Hall
Songs, p. 94. Now I've grown into an
awful young LIMB.
2. (American colloquial).-A
leg.
1720. RAMSAY, The Scribbler's
Lathed, p. 8. If Nellie's hoop be twice
as wide As her two pretty LIMBS can
stride.
1857. REV. A. C. GEIKIE, Canadian
Yournal, Sept. If we know anything
of English conversation or letters,
we speedily find out, even if stone blind,
that British men and women have arms
and legs, But in Canada. . . . he would
learn that both sexes have miss of some
sort. . . . but he could not tell whether
their LIMBS were used to stand on or
hold by.
1858. Pittsburg Chronicle, June.
The poor brute [a horse] fell . . . .
fracturing his LIMB.
1861. 0. NV. HouviEs, Elsie Venrzer,
vii. A bit of the wing, Rovy, or
of-the under ums ? ' The first laugh
broke out at this.
1867. UPHAM, Witchcraft, ii. 248.
One of her lower LIMBS was fractured
in the attempt to rescue her from the
prison walls.
1870. R. G. WHITE, Words .57.
their Uses, s.v. LIMB for LEG. Perhaps
these persons think that it is indelicate
for women to have legs.