1.
[syn: liar, prevaricator]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Liar \Li"ar\ (l[imac]"[~e]r), n. [OE. liere. See Lie to
falsify.]
A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
liar
n 1: a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly [syn: liar,
prevaricator] [ant: square shooter, straight arrow,
straight shooter]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
MIT Scheme
C-Scheme
Edwin
Liar
(Previously "C-Scheme") A Scheme implementation
by the MIT Scheme Team (Chris Hanson, Jim Miller, Bill
Rozas, and many others) with a rich set of utilities, a
compiler called Liar and an editor called Edwin.
MIT Scheme includes an interpreter, large run-time
library, Emacs macros, native-code compiler, emacs-like
editor, and a source-level debugger.
MIT Scheme conforms fully with R4RS and almost with the
IEEE Scheme standard. It runs on Motorola 68000:
HP9000, Sun-3, NeXT; MIPS: Decstation, Sony, SGI;
HP-PA: 600, 700, 800; VAX: Ultrix, BSD, DEC Alpha:
OSF; Intel i386: MS-DOS, MS Windows, and various other
Unix systems.
See also: LAP, Schematik, Scode.
(http://gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/).
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.scheme.c.
Mailing list: mit-scheme-announce@gnu.org (cross-posted to
news).
E-mail: (maintainers).
(2003-08-14)
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission.