Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Livid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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