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Webster 1913 Edition
Liard
Li′ard
(lī′ẽrd)
, Adj.
[OF.
liart
, LL. liardus
gray, dapple.] Gray.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
☞ Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse.
‖Liard
(lyär)
, Noun.
[F.]
A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
Webster 1828 Edition
Liard
LI'ARD
,Adj.
Definition 2024
liard
liard
English
Noun
liard (plural liards)
- (historical) A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- I waited — not to share the booty, for, so help me God and Saint Withold! as neither I nor any of mine will touch the value of a liard, — I waited but to render my thanks to thee and to thy bold yeomen, for the life and honour ye have saved.
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