codliver

plural codlivers

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of cod liver.

   Codliver-oil. […] The pale oil is obtained from fresh codlivers, caught near the shore.

   1904, E[dwin] Stanton Muir, “Oleum Morrhuæ”, in Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacy: Specially Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Medical, Pharmaceutical, Dental, and Veterinary Students, 3rd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: F[rank] A[llston] Davis Company, […], page 95

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   2. Fixed oils and fats. The oils of olives, poppy seed, almonds, castor beans, codlivers, rapeseed, neats foot, euphorbia lathyrus, croton tiglium, lard, tallow, palm nuts, cocoanuts, spermaceti, and probably all the fixed fats, dissolve readily, and in all proportions in chloroform.

   1852 April, “On Chloroform as a Solvent”, in William Procter, Jr., editor, The American Journal of Pharmacy, Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, volume XVIII, Philadelphia, Pa.: Merrihew and Thompson, […], page 147

   Your grand-banker, who may be smelt a mile off, on a smooth day, if you are so unfortunate as to be under his lee—who lives, moves, and has his being in the midst of decaying codlivers and decayed fish—who stumps about all day in tough oil-clothes, and sea-boots with soles an inch thick, washes his face once a month, and cuts a notch in the mainmast when he changes his shirt—this same rusty old fellow will look thunder at you, should you by accident place a soiled shoe upon his half-deck, and will wash this little favored oasis in the surrounding wilderness of dirt, every day of his fishing cruise.

   1855, Charles Nordhoff, “The South-East Trades—A Gale off the Cape, and what succeeded it—St. Pauls and New Amsterdam—Return to fine Weather—Water-Spouts”, in Man-of-War Life: A Boy’s Experience in the United States Navy, During a Voyage around the World, in a Ship of the Line, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, […], page 156

   The outskirts of the towns were characterised by immense cauldrons, in which codlivers are boiled for the European market, and suggested by their magnitude, on the one hand, the amelioration of insidious disease to thousands, and, on the other, the importance of this branch of industry and the dangers encountered fearlessly in earning a livelihood by the cod-fishers.

   1876, James Lamont, “Novaya Zemlya and the Kara Sea”, in Yachting in the Arctic Seas or Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, London: Chatto and Windus, […], page 16

   He states on the authority of Professor Almén, who has devoted many years to the analysis and study of the different kinds of codliver oil of commerce, that a nearly white oil may be made by heating fresh codlivers, previously cleaned and washed, in well-tinned kettles by steam, decanting the exuding oil, straining it and exposing it to a low temperature; […]

   1878 November, Louis von Cotzhausen, “Gleanings from the German Journals”, in John M[ichael] Maisch, editor, The American Journal of Pharmacy. Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy., volume L / fourth series, volume VIII, Philadelphia, Pa.: Merrihew & Son, […], pages 518–519

   PROCESS OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CONCENTRATED EXTRACT OF CODLIVERS. James W. Stairs and John Craig, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Filed February 13, 1886. Issued November, 23, 1886.

   1886 December 1, “Recent Patents”, in Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, volume XXX, number 22, New York, N.Y., page 52, column 2