The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Liver \Liv"er\, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG.
   lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. ? fat, E.
   live, v.] (Anat.)
   A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral
   cavity of all vertebrates.
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   Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal
         passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it
         secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways
         changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is
         situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly
         on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and
         Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is
         usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs
         materially, in form and function, from that of
         vertebrates.
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   Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering.


   Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See
      Hepar.

   Liver brown, Liver color, the color of liver, a dark,
      reddish brown.

   Liver shark (Zool.), a very large shark (Cetorhinus
      maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe
      and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in
      length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has
      small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured
      for the sake of its liver, which often yields several
      barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone,
      by means of which it separates small animals from the sea
      water. Called also basking shark, bone shark,
      hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes
      referred to as whale shark, but that name is more
      commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even
      larger.

   Liver spots, yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots
      of chloasma.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Basking shark \Bask"ing shark`\ (Zool.)
   One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus),
   so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver
   shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of
   Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty
   feet. It is a harmless species.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to
   Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf.
   Icel. beinn straight.]
   1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of
      vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium
      carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and
      bone.
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   Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute
         cavities containing living matter and connected by
         minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals
         through which blood vessels ramify.
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   2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a
      rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any
      fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of
      the body.
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   3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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   4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers
      and struck together to make a kind of music.
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   5. pl. Dice.
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   6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a
      corset.
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   7. Fig.: The framework of anything.
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   A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute.


   A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's
      self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one).

   Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for
      making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry.

   Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into
      which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels;
      -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a
      decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc.,
      and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black.


   Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or
      recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones
      of man. --Am. Cyc.

   Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a
      fertilizer.

   Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the
      calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of
      calcium.

   Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because
      woven with bobbins of bone.

   Bone oil, an oil obtained by heating bones (as in the
      manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing
      the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their
      derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil.

   Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary.


   Bone shark (Zool.), the basking shark.

   Bone spavin. See under Spavin.

   Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue
      color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.


   Bone whale (Zool.), a right whale.

   To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Obs.]

   To make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate.
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   To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over
      a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]
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