livery
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1. livery - Noun
2. livery - Adjective
3. livery - Verb
4. livery - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
The writ by which possession is obtained.
That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.
The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.
The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.
Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London.
Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.
An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.
The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.
To clothe in, or as in, livery.
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Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.
This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.
767-300ER A United Airlines 767-300ER arriving at Ezeiza International Airport in the old livery The 767-300ER, the extended-range version of the 767-300, entered service with American Airlines in 1988.
A Boeing 737 in the Astrojet livery In the late 1960s, American commissioned designer Massimo Vignelli to develop a new livery.