vivers

See also: Vivers

English

Etymology

From French vivres, plural of vivre (“to live”).

Noun

vivers pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) provisions; victuals
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vivers”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Noun

vivers

1. plural of viver