? Obs. [WHITE a. 5.] A ‘white-livered’ person, coward, dastard; ‘a flatterer’ (Jam. 1825).

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1615.  Bp. Hall, Contempl., IX. Gideon’s Prep., 103. Oh thou white liuer! doth but a foule word, or a frowne scarre thee from Christ?

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1673.  Hickeringill, Greg. F. Greyb., 207. A sort of spiritless and cowhearted milk-sops, dastards and white-livers.

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