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Definition of Liard
1. a. Gray.
2. n. A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
Definition of Liard
1. Noun. (historical) A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Liard
1. a former silver coin of France [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liard
Literary usage of Liard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"THE liard RIVER REGION. AJ STONE. The liard. draining an immense basin to the
West of the Rocky mountains, and receiving numerous considerable tributaries ..."
2. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"The liard River itself drains into the Mackenzie River, which ultimately drains
into the Arctic Ocean. The liard River Bridge is the last suspension bridge ..."
3. The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada by E. Jerome Dyer (1898)
"Dangers of the liard Route. Mr- Warburton Pike in his work, "The Barren terrors.
Grounds of Northern Canada" (published 1892), says he would have preferred ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1893)
"Between Simpson and liard no streams of any importance enter the liard. About 105
miles above Simpson the Nahanni enters from the west; it is about 200 ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"by James, and portraits of the king by the former are also at Windsor, Holyrood,
and Hampton Court. From a miniature by Hil- liard (1617) ..."
6. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1890)
"... ranges along the Rocky Mountains from the Arctic Ocean southward, so I am
informed, to the great break in the chain through which the liard flows (Lat. ..."
7. ... Report of an Exploration in the Yukon District, N.W.T., and Adjacent by George Mercer Dawson, Richard George McConnell (1898)
"Names of liard and Frances trade. It is reached by these people by some overland
route ... The liard is full of islands at its confluence with the Frances, ..."
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