Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Liard
Li′ard (lī′ẽrd), a. [OF. liart, LL. liardus gray, dapple.] Gray. [Obs.] Chaucer.
☞ Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse.
Liard (lyär), n. [F.] A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.