Definition: livid

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

livid
     adj 1: ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a
            face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks";
            "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid
            with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"-
            Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face
            white with rage" [syn: ashen, blanched, bloodless,
             white]
     2: (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; "livid
        lightning streaked the sky"; "a thousand
        flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a
        livid and preternatural day"- E.A.Poe
     3: (informal) furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him
        absolutely livid"
     4: discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten
        black and blue"; "livid bruises" [syn: black-and-blue]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Livid \Liv"id\, a. [L. lividus, from livere to be of a blush
   color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.]
   Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as
   flesh by contusion. --Cowper.

         There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots,
         the mass of the blood not being tainted. --Bacon.

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 

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