vivers

See also: Vivers

English

Etymology

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

Noun

vivers pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialectal) provisions; victuals
    • Sir Walter Scott
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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