Definify.com

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.
Gray. Obs.

Definition 2024


liard

liard

English

Noun

liard (plural liards)

  1. (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.

Anagrams