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Adjective: white-livered  'wIt 'li-vu(r)d
  1. Easily frightened
    "if you discover that a young woman is white-livered, do not on any account marry her"
    - chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, chicken-livered

See also: cowardly, fearful

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white-headed stilt
white-heart hickory
Whitehorse
white-hot
white-knuckle
whitelash
white-leaved rockrose
white-lipped
white-lipped peccary
whitelist
white-livered
whiteman's foot
white-man's foot
whiten
whitened
whitener
whiteness
whitening
whiteout
white-out
white-pine rust