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lyery, a. Now dial.|ˈlaɪərɪ|
Also lyary.
[Var. of liry a.]
Of cattle: Having a superabundance of lean flesh.
[1483: see liry s.v. lire n.1] 1803A. Hunter Georg. Ess. IV. 351 Lyery, or black-fleshed. 1807Culley in W. C. L. Martin Ox 51/1 Cattle, well known to the breeders adjoining the river Tees by the appellation of ‘lyery’, or ‘double-lyered’; that is, black-fleshed. a1843Southey Commpl. Bk. IV. 400 Those [Lincolnshire oxen] that never fatten are called lyery. c1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 41/2 The cattle in general were large,..slow to fatten..and often black, or foul-fleshed, or as it is called in Yorkshire ‘lyery’. 1855Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) II. 142/1 When the flesh [of an ox] becomes heavy on the thighs, making a sort of double thigh, the thigh is called lyary. |