| 单词 | liver bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliver bird A name arbitrarily given to: the bird (heraldically identified as a cormorant) represented in the arms of the City of Liverpool. Also liver bird.A 14th-cent. seal from Liverpool shows a bird apparently intended to represent an eagle (symbolizing St John the Evangelist). Legend has it that poor draughtsmanship led to the bird being variously identified as (amongst others) a spoonbill, a glossy ibis, and a pelican. Since the late 18th cent. the bird represented on modern grants of arms, etc., has been identified with the cormorant.The two clock towers on the Royal Liver Friendly Society Building (the Liver Building), overlooking the River Mersey in Liverpool, each support a copper sculpture (c1912) of a ‘Liver bird’ (designed by C. B. Bartels). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > heraldic birds eaglec1380 swana1400 phoenix?a1425 pelicana1430 ravena1450 merlette1451 popinjayc1460 eagletc1494 merliona1500 martletc1519 merlion?a1549 spread eagle1550 meropie1572 spread eaglet1602 alerion1625 liver1668 shoveller1780 eagle in her majesty?1828 double eagle1861 hirondelle1880 pelican in her piety1885 1668 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 269 The Armes of this towne vizt the Leaver. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xii. 266/2 He beareth Azure, the Head of a Lever couped proper: of some termed a Shovellers head: this fowl is..in Low Dutch Lepler, or Lepelaer, or Lefler; from the Germane termed Lofler, which we more finely pronounce Lever: Yet Mr. Ray in the translation of the Ornithology terms this Bird, a Spoon Bill. 1796 W. Moss Liverpool Guide 15 Tradition says, that a singular bird, called a Liver, formerly frequented this pool; hence the place was called Liverpool; and the Liver, adopted as its Crest. 1811 Liverpool Mercury 5 July 6/3 O Liver-bird, hadst thou not flown, That victor voice had not been known. 1873 J. A. Picton Memorials Liverpool I. 18 Mr. Gough Nichols has..shown..that the so-called liver or cormorant was intended to represent the symbolic eagle of St. John the Evangelist. 1920 Notes & Queries 12th Ser. 314 I entirely agree with what your contributor..says about the absurdity of the ‘Liver bird’ derivation of ‘Liverpool’. 2008 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 4 Nov. g18 The Liver Building on the waterfront, topped by statues of liver birds, claims the largest striking clock in the country. < as lemmas |
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