lividité, n.f., lividness.
livrable, adj., (com.) deliverable.
livraison, n.f., delivery (of goods); part, number (of a book). Prendre de —; to receive. Faire —; to deliver (goods, etc.). Par —s; in parts, numbers.
livre, n.m., book, register, volume. — manuscrit, imprimé; manuscript, printed book. — en feuilles; book in sheets. — cartonné; book in boards. — broché; stitched book. — épuisé; book out of print. — de consignations; (police) charge-sheet. — d’occasion; second-hand book. — d’heures; (c.rel.) prayer-book, primer. Collationner un —; to collate a book. Mettre un — au jour; to publish a book. Un dévoreur de —s; a bookworm (pers.). Parler comme un —; to speak like a book. Traduire à — ouvert; to translate at sight. Chanter à — ouvert; to sing at sight. — de compte; book of accounts. Grand —; ledger. — journal; day-book. — de caisse; cash-book. — d’échéances; bill-book. Teneur de —s; book-keeper. Tenir les —s; to keep the books, to keep the accounts. Grand —, grand — de la dette publique; register of the National Debt. — jaune; blue book.
livre, n.f., pound (1 lb., 1 oz., 10¼ dr. avoirdupois); livre (coin); franc. — sterling; pound sterling. — parisis; Paris livre ($0·25). — tournois; Tours livre ($0·21). À la —; by the pound. Dix francs la —; ten francs a pound.
livrée, n.f., livery; livery-servants. — de noce; wedding-favors. En —; in livery. Gens de —; footmen, flunkeys. Grande —; full livery. Petite —; undress livery. Marchandises à —; goods to be delivered.
livrer, v.a., to deliver; to deliver up, over; to betray; to give up; to commit, to consign. — de la marchandise à; to deliver goods to. — bataille; to engage, to give battle. — un assaut; to make an assault. — une place à l’ennemi; to deliver up a fortress to the enemy. — une ville au pillage; to give up a town to pillage. — une bataille; to fight a battle.
se livrer, v.r., to deliver one’s self up, over; to give one’s self up, over; to surrender one’s self; to devote, to dedicate, to apply, one’s self to; to confide (in); to trust one’s self to; to riot in; to expose one’s self to.
livret, n.m., little book; memorandum-book; workman’s certificate; time-book; cabman’s license; depositor’s book; multiplication-table; book (of the play). — de batteur d’or; gold-beater’s mold.
livreur, n.m., deliverer (of goods). Payez le —; pay on delivery.