lipn.
/lɪp/, U.S. /lɪp/ I. A part of the mouth, and related uses.
1. † b. Proverbs. (See also lettuce n. 2) Obsolete.† c. transferred or figurative in the lip (? = point) of a lance. Obsolete.
a. Either of the two fleshy structures which in man and other animals form the edges of the mouth. Distinguished as upper and lower, also as †over (obsolete) and under, colloquial or dialect top and bottom lip. Phrase (immersed, steeped) to the lips.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > depth [phrase] > in something to specific depth
up to the shoes1518
over head and ears?1521
head and ears1576
mid-rib deep1697
(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822
up to one's (also the) armpits1869
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly
all outc1300
out and outc1300
at all devicec1385
to devicec1385
right out?1543
up to the chin1546
up to the eyes1607
upsy Friese1609
up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627
all hollow1762
(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822
all ends up1850
fair and square1870
right spang1884
to the wide1895
a (also one) hundred per cent1911
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 157/22 Labium, ufeweard lippa. Labrum, niðera lippe. Rostrum, foreweard feng þære lippena togædere.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 100 Wið lippe sar.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14652 Of cnihten he carf þe lippes.
13.. K. Alis. 6428 Heo no hath nose, no mouth, no toth, no lippe.
c1375 XI Pains of Hell 81 in Old Eng. Misc. 213 Þo þat stod vp to þe leppis Be þe seruys of god þai set noȝt by.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 52 Poysoun on a pole þei put vp to his lippes.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxii. 100 Men þat hase þe ouer lippe so grete þat, when þai slepe in þe sonne, þai couer all þe visage with þat lippe.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 1234 His lyppys round, his noys was squar and tret.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 234 For lachtter nain mycht hald thair lippis.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 49 When she drinkes, against her lips I bob. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 52 Had he..Steep'd me in pouerty, to the very lips . View more context for this quotation
1724 R. Wodrow Life J. Wodrow (1828) 166 I observed his lips quivering.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. x. 40 A small cancerous Tumour at the Corner of his under Lip.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Fragm. Unfinished Drama in Posthumous Poems (1824) 101 Some said he was..steeped in bitter infamy to the lips.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes (1859) I. 449 [The Loach] ..with four barbels or cirri..on the upper lip in the front.
1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xvi. 51 To the lips was he in luxury immersed.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiv. 38 That little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Lv He can yll pype, that lackth his ouer lyp.
1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 464/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II A man cannot pipe without his vpper lip.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > head or point of lance
the lip (? = point) of a lancec1540
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10139 With the lippe of þere launsis so launchet þai somyn.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10147.
d. = embouchure n. 3; the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > disposition of mouth
embouchure1762
lip1889
1889 in Cent. Dict.
1933 Metronome July 26 He's got the ideas, but his lip's weak yet.
1960 Jazz Rev. Nov. 10 My lip went bad after a year in the Earl Hines band.
1972 Rolling Stone 9 Nov. 10/2 Having not played for several months, Miles had lost the eternally fragile trumpeters' lip.
2. In phrases referring to certain actions regarded as indicative of particular states of feeling. to bite one's lip or †on one's lip, (a) to show vexation, (b) to repress emotion; to carry or keep a stiff upper lip, to keep one's courage, not to lose heart; in bad sense, to be hard or obstinate; to curl one's lip (see curl v.1 3b); †to fall a lip of contempt, to express contempt by the movement of the lip; †to hang the lip, to look vexed (cf. hang v. 4b); to lay (a person) on the lips, to kiss (see lay v.1 34); to lick one's lips (see lick v. 1b); †to make (up) a lip, to frame the lips so as to express vexation or merriment at; to pout or poke fun at [compare French faire sa lippe] ; to smack one's lips, to express relish for food, figurative to express delight.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > maintain self-control [verb (intransitive)] > restrain the emotions
to bite one's lip1330
to swallow one's spittlec1400
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make fun of
to have (also i-do) (something) to gameeOE
to make (a) game of (also at, on)?c1250
overmirtha1400
sporta1533
to make a sport of1535
to make (up) a lip1546
to give one a (or the) gleek1567
to make a May game of1569
to play with a person's nose1579
to make merry over (also with)1621
game1699
to make fun of1732
hit1843
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > express relish for food [verb]
to smack one's lips1557
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > have (good) appetite [verb (intransitive)] > lick or smack one's lips or fingers
to lick one's lips1508
to lick one's fingers1530
to smack one's lips1557
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by facial expression
snurtc1440
to look askew1538
scance1611
to fall a lip of contempta1616
flurn1656
sneer1734
to curl the lip1816
snigger1823
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 155 Philip bote on his lippe.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 67 For wraþþe he bot his lippes.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 283 And go so forth as I go may, Fulofte bitinge on my lippe.
1546 Bp. S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles 46 b Eyther they make a lyppe at it, or yelde with silence to seme to gyue place to auctoritie for the tyme.
1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 344 Not smackynge thy lyppes, As comonly do hogges.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 846 The Erle..was therewithall a little vexed, & began somwhat to hang the lip.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 113 I will make a Lippe at the Physician. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 374 Hee..falling A Lippe of much contempt, speedes from me. View more context for this quotation
1781 F. Burney Jrnl. 14 Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 474 Was not that a speech to provoke Miss Grizzle herself? However, I only made up a saucy lip.
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. ii. 15 ‘What's the use o' boo~hooin'?.. Keep a stiff upper lip; no bones broke—don't I know?’
1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) xxv She used to carry a stiff upper lip, and make him and the broomstick well acquainted together.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xliv. 483 He then drank..and smacking his lips, held out the tumbler for more.
1840 R. Browning Sordello ii. 70 He..Biting his lip to keep down a great smile Of pride.
1969 C. Booker Neophiliacs vi. 134 The tradition of ‘stiff upper lip’ epics looking back to wartime greatness.
1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul i. i. 11 Machismo..the Spanish equivalent of virtus..had little to do with English courage or a stiff upper lip.
1973 Guardian 10 Feb. 3/3 Stiff upper lip all round on Mrs Gandhi's taunt.
1973 Times 24 Dec. 14/4 (heading) How the Italians are facing up to austerity with a stiff upper lip.
3. † b. singular. Language; chiefly in phrase, of one lip (a Hebraism); also used for ‘agreeing in one story’. literal and figurative. Obsolete.
a. Chiefly plural. Considered as one of the organs of speech; often in figurative contexts. (In early examples chiefly in literalisms from the Vulgate) †to lift or move a lip: to utter even the slightest word against. to escape (a person's) lips: see escape v. 2b. to hang on (a person's) lips: to listen with rapt attention to his speech.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > utterance of vocal sound > means of
lipc1020
mouthOE
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > lip or lips
lipc1020
ruby1592
labraa1616
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)]
reprehendc1400
murmur1424
discommenda1500
belack1531
to find fault (with, at)c1540
scan?c1550
fault1563
pinch1567
to lift or move a lip1579
raign1581
reflect1605
criminate1645
criticize1652
nick1668
critic1697
chop1712
stricture1851
to get on to ——1895
chip1898
rap1899
nitpick1956
c1020 Rule St. Benet (1888) xxxviii. 69 Mine lippan þu geopena & min muð.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Ich am amon wið fulede lippen.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 266/192 Heo ne wawede leome non bote hire lippene vnneþe Ȝware-with heo seide hire oresun.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 38 Heo haþ a mury mouht to mele, wiþ lefly rede lippes lele, romaunz forte rede.
c1480 (a1400) St. Thais 147 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 219 Na ȝet þi lyppis suld nocht be opnyt to pray the trinite.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQviiiv And ye locke of good aduysement shalbe set on our lyppes.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 42/2 We may not once moue the lippe against them.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 238 Peace Troyan, lay thy finger on thy lips . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 80 Mercie then will breathe within your lips . View more context for this quotation
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 91 Atheisme is rather in the Lip, than in the Heart of Man.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 56 From his Lip Not Words alone pleas'd her. View more context for this quotation
1704 Good Expedient for Innocence & Peace in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 14/2 It might appear a Crime to lift a Lip against, or return any Answer to this Objection.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 44 Hypocrisy, formality in prayer, And the dull service of the lip, were there.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 21 Not less among us lived Her fame from lip to lip.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 127 John Hampden..produced a composition..too vituperative to suit the lips of the Speaker.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 238 Unless I hear the contrary from your own lips.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 427 If the Christianity of the lips is consistent with anti-Christianity of life.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun]
speechc888
rounOE
ledenc1000
tonguec1000
wordOE
moalc1175
speaka1300
languagec1300
land-speecha1325
talea1325
lip1382
stevenc1386
languea1425
leed1513
public language1521
idiom1575
idiotism1588
lingua1660
lingua franca1697
receptive language1926
the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [adjective]
anmodOE
accordantc1350
concordable1393
ogrant?a1400
whole1413
agreeing1440
communala1470
concordant1477
agreeablea1525
greeinga1547
one-hearted?1584
consenting1589
well-tuned1592
consentient1622
concording1627
unanimousa1631
unanimate1633
homodox1656
concurrent1660
concerted1673
of one lip1677
homodoxian1716
harmonious1724
concurring1732
assenting1752
one-voiced1821
solidary1841
solidaire1845
solid1855
ditto-saying1892
assented1907
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xi. 1 Forsothe the erthe was of oo lip [a1425 L.V. langage], and of the same wordis.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 174 [The poor Clothiers of Worcester] are all of one Lip, a bad Trade, and they do not know when it will mend [etc.].
1681 Whole Duty of Nations 15 In parts remote one from another, and of a divers lip or language.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. ii. 90 This, People of a different Lip doth bind With sacred Cords.
c. slang. Saucy talk, impudence.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech
sauce malapert1529
petulancea1652
jaw1748
snash1786
slack-jaw1797
slang1805
gob1807
lip1821
cheek1825
slack1825
sass1841
back-talk1858
back sass1883
mouth1891
slack lip1899
back-chat1901
chin1902
slop1952
1821 Life D. Haggart (ed. 2) 20 I was at no loss in vindicating myself and giving him plenty of lip.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn v. 40 ‘Don't you give me none o' your lip,’ says he.
1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly xx. 152 Says Sal to me, ‘None of your lip’.
d. A lawyer, esp. a criminal lawyer. U.S. slang.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun]
lawyer1377
man of lawc1405
practiserc1450
jurist1481
lawman1535
practitioner1576
man of the long coat1579
(a gentleman) toward the law1592
gownsman1627
law-driver1640
long-robe man1654
green bag1699
flycatcher1708
homme d'affaires1717
jet1728
law-solicitor1738
shark1806
blue bag1817
law-person1819
law-gentleman1837
maître1883
lip1929
1929 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 13 Apr. 54/3 A lawyer is a mouthpiece or a shyster or a lip.
1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/2 Get a lip for a writ an' I'll lam.
1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 127/1 The lip took a hundred skins (dollars) and never showed (appeared) in court.
II. Something resembling the lips of the mouth.
4.
a. The margin of a cup or any similar vessel; e.g. of a bell.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun]
brerdc1000
hemc1200
barmc1340
cantc1375
margina1382
boardc1400
borderc1400
brinkc1420
edgea1450
verge1459
brim1525
rind1530
margent1538
abuttal1545
marge1551
skirt1566
lip1592
skirt1598
limb1704
phylactery1715
rim1745
rand1829
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > rim
brink1382
berda1425
edgea1450
lip1592
beaded1917
bead rim1936
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 60 And in the bearing out of the lippe of the vessell ouer the perpendicular poynt of the heade there was fastened a rynge.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Proem 9 The Orifice [of a vessel] is incircled with a lip of Glass, almost an inch high.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 102 The Sea..bounded against those Hills..as the ledges or lips of its Vessel.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 321 Raise the coals quite to the lip of the crucible.
1810 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries: Pt. 1st vii. 117 The fracture had taken place,..seven feet high from the lip of the bell.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 259 A small brown pitcher with the lip broken.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. v. 127 He held out the tiny glass... ‘Now wet the lip of the phial’.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 156 Lips, the rounded edges of the cylinder in a Cylinder Escapement.
b. The edge of any opening or cavity, esp. of the crater of a volcano.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of an opening or cavity
edgea1450
brim1546
lip1726
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 38/1 The Lips of the Apertures.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 341 Every stream of lava descending from the lips of the crater.
1855 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) II. 575/2 The remainder should be placed on the ditch lip on the headridge.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 190 The partially-molten rock..may eventually run over the lip of the crater.
1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 106 Crouching..under the heathery lip of the chasm.
c. In wider sense: Any edge or rim, esp. one that projects; spec. in Coal Mining (see quot. 1883).
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part
hornc1275
outshooting1310
nosec1400
startc1400
spout1412
snouta1425
outbearingc1425
outstanding?c1425
relish1428
jeta1500
rising1525
shoulder1545
jutting1565
outshootc1565
prominence1578
forecast1580
projection1592
sprout1598
eye1600
shooting forth1601
lip1608
juttying1611
prominent?1611
eminence1615
butting1625
excursiona1626
elbow1626
protrusion1646
jettinga1652
outjetting1652
prominency1654
eminency1668
nouch1688
issuanta1690
out-butting1730
outjet1730
out-jutting1730
flange1735
nosing1773
process1775
jut1787
projecture1803
nozzle1804
saliency1831
ajutment1834
salience1837
out-thrust1842
emphasis1885
cleat1887
outjut1893
pseudopodiuma1902
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > projecting
lip1608
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 589 Certaine claspes which..caught holde of the edge or lip of the table.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 130 The lip of the hammer [of a gun] over~hangs the upper edge of the inclined plane.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxix. 379 Round the northern lip of this coal tract.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Lip,..the low part of the roof of a gate-road near to the face; taken down or ripped, as it is called, as the face advances.
1890 J. Service Thir Notandums xv. 102 The Laird o' Auchinskeich had a bit mailin' on the lip o' the moss.
5. In scientific and technical uses.
a. Surgery. One of the edges of a wound.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > edge of
lipc1400
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 35 Be war þat..no þing..þat lettiþ consolidacioun, falle bitwene þe lippis of þe wounde.
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Fiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Yf the lyppes of the vlcere appere harde and stony, they must be cutte.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 333 The Chirurgeon does often hinder Nature from closing up the Lips of a Wound.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. Introd. p. iii The Lips of a Wound must be joined.
1807 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. I. i. xl. 211 The lips of the wound are, therefore, to be brought accurately together.
1889 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
b. Anatomy and Zoology. = labium n. or labrum n.1
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vulva > labia
lip1598
nymphs1615
labium1634
nympha1646
tablier1789
Hottentot apron1833
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > mouth > lip
labium1798
labrum1815
lip1828
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 28/4 When we bende the elbowe, both the labia or lippes of the vayn do separate themselves.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Landies, the two Pterigones, or great wings within the lips of a womans Priuities.
1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 174 The Labia, or Lips of the great Chink.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 209 They [Myriapoda] have..a labium or lip without palpi, formed of united portions.
1862 Goldsmith's Hist. Earth II. Suppl. 575 The mouth has usually two mandibles, a labium, or lip below, and from three to five pairs of jaws.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 280/2 [article Arachnida] A rudimentary sternal lip (labium).
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish ii. 51 In front, the mouth is overlapped by a wide shield-shaped plate termed the upper lip or labrum.
1901 Gray's Anat. (ed. 15) 631 The central lobe or island of Reil lies deeply in the Sylvian fissure, and can only be seen when the lips of that fissure are widely separated.
c. Botany (a) One of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx. (b) = labellum n. 1.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > lip
label1707
palate1760
labium1764
lip1776
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 395 Ringens, gaping, irregular, with two lips.
1776–96 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 41 Lip scolloped, blunt, longer than the petals.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 434 Ajuga [has] scarcely any upper lip at all.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. §7. 118 The lower lip or labellum, the latter term is chiefly applied to the lower lip of Orchideous plants.
1892 Garden 27 Aug. 184 Orchids. Cattleya Schilleriana... The lip is three-lobed.
d. Conchology. One of the edges of the aperture of a spiral shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell > part of
auricle1665
heel1673
lip1681
mouth1681
whirl1681
rib1711
antihelix1721
canal1734
columella1755
vesture1755
body whirl1776
fent1776
pillar1776
pillar-lip1776
septum1786
aperture1794
body whorl1807
costa1812
seam1816
spine1822
umbo1822
varix1822
peristome1828
summit1828
nucleus1833
concameration1835
lunula1835
nympha1836
nymph1839
lunule1842
peritreme1848
body chamber1851
axis1866
umbone1867
liration1904
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis 124 Note That when I speak of the Right or Left Lip of a Shell, I mean, as it is held with the Mouth downward.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xx. 216 One of the innumerable groups of curves at the lip of a paper Nautilus.
1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iii. 45 The outer lip is thin, not thickened or reflected as in the majority of the land shells.
e. Mechanics. In various senses (see quots.).
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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 130 Lips of scarphs. The substance left at the ends, which would otherwise become sharp, and be liable to split, and, in other cases, could not bear caulking.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 549/2 Lip, the helical blade on the end of an auger to cut the chip.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 278/2 Split bracket; ‘lips’ compressed by screw bolt.
f. Organ-building. (See quot. 1876.)
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > other parts of pipes
tongue1551
mouth1727
lip1728
reed1728
wind-cuttera1834
labium1847
beak1852
beard1852
underlip1852
wedge1852
body tube1854
plate-of-wind1875
wind-way1875
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Organ Over this Aperture is the Mouth BBCC; whose upper Lip, CC, being level, cuts the Wind as it comes out at the Aperture.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 79 The good intonation, or speaking of a pipe, depends on the correct position of the lips.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) iv. 24 Above and below [the mouth of an organ pipe] are two edges called the lips.
1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xvi. 128 The opening between the lips of a pipe is called ‘the mouth’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Simple attributive.
(a) Belonging to a lip or lips.
(i)
lip-end n.
ΚΠ
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 70 Sometimes, only those at the lip ends of the scarphs are left.
lip-favour n.
ΚΠ
1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. E Lutesio kinde, gaue the gentlewoman a kisse: for he thought she valued a lip fauour more then a peece of gold.
lip-hair n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache
mustachio1551
mustachio beard1566
moustache1585
mustachiosa1593
bigote1622
dibble1631
umbrage1657
whisker1706
lip-wing1825
facial hair1830
mousetail1853
lip-hair1873
lip-thatch1892
hackles1894
mo1894
tash1894
zit1912
mouser1922
stash1940
taz1951
stache1963
mush1967
1873 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 325 Snobs and gents, and men with waxed lip-hair.
lip-position n.
ΚΠ
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iv. iii. sig. H2 His house full Of children, clyents, servants, flattering friends Soothing his lip-positions.
lip-quiver n.
ΚΠ
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxiv. 167 Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
lip-smile n.
ΚΠ
1870 G. Meredith Harry Richmond xvi, in Cornhill Mag. Dec. 665 She had her lips tight in a mere lip-smile.
(ii)
lip-like adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > others
lachrymal1607
tauriform1721
diminished1726
tailed1767
acinose1796
aciniform1798
acinous1809
slab-sided1817
lip-like1836
mound-like1843
high-centred1847
square-toed1851
brush-shaped1880
mushroom1884
bolster-shaped1900
arrowhead1934
narrow-gutted1952
panhandled1960
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 543/1 The lip-like folds of skin before the membrana tympani.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 128 The upper lip-like portion of the anterior suckers.
(b) In uses relating to the lips as the organs of speech (sense 3), chiefly with the implication ‘merely from the lips, not heartfelt’.
(i) † lip-gospeller n. Obsolete† lip-lusciousness n. Obsolete
lip-babble n.
ΚΠ
1895 I. Zangwill Master i. vi. 70 Were these things, then, merely lip-babble?
lip-Christian n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person
Pharisee1539
card gospeller1550
lip-gospeller?1556
saint1563
table-gospeller1570
separatist1620
Christera1650
canter1652
high-liver1715
cant1725
pietist1767
devil dodger1791
goody1816
creeping Jesusc1818
Mawworm1825
goody-two-shoes1843
Pecksniff1844
goody-goody1872
goody-good1879
lip-Christian1882
plaster saint1890
holy Willie1916
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 448 (note) He is speaking, not of lip-Christians but, of converts who lapse into ‘wretchlessness of unclean living’.
lip-comfort n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > as comfort or service
lip service1590
lip-comfort1632
lip-physica1640
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iii. i. sig. F3 Lip comfort cannot cure me.
lip-comforter n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > insincere person
lip-comfortera1815
pseudo1829
lip-worshippera1846
lip-server1860
phoney1952
pseud1954
jive-ass1964
a1815 R. Southey Soldier's Funeral 43 Reverend lip-comforters that once a week Proclaim how blessed are the poor.
lip-cozenage n.
ΚΠ
a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 40 Pretends himself, with a new strain of Lip-cousenage, to be the Heir of Edward the First.
lip-devotion n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun]
hypocrisy?c1225
pope-holya1425
saunteringc1440
pope-holiness1528
Pharisaism?1573
lip-holiness1591
lip-religion1597
hypocrism1605
lip-devotion1613
sanctimonya1618
lip-worship1656
sanctimoniousness1679
unction1692
sanctification1768
goodiness1808
pietism1829
lip-reverencec1843
Pecksniffery1848
mawwormism1850
goody-good1851
lip-homage1858
devil-dodging1866
goody-goodiness1868
goody-goodyism1868
piosity1883
unctuosity1884
1613 S. Hieron Baptizing of Eunuch in Wks. (1620) I. 292 There may be somewhat like prayer, which yet is not prayer, but lip-deuotion.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person
Pharisee1539
card gospeller1550
lip-gospeller?1556
saint1563
table-gospeller1570
separatist1620
Christera1650
canter1652
high-liver1715
cant1725
pietist1767
devil dodger1791
goody1816
creeping Jesusc1818
Mawworm1825
goody-two-shoes1843
Pecksniff1844
goody-goody1872
goody-good1879
lip-Christian1882
plaster saint1890
holy Willie1916
?1556 E. P. in tr. T. Cranmer Confut. Verities Pref. sig. A iiij We were..lippe gospellers, from the mouth outeward and no farther.
lip-holiness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun]
hypocrisy?c1225
pope-holya1425
saunteringc1440
pope-holiness1528
Pharisaism?1573
lip-holiness1591
lip-religion1597
hypocrism1605
lip-devotion1613
sanctimonya1618
lip-worship1656
sanctimoniousness1679
unction1692
sanctification1768
goodiness1808
pietism1829
lip-reverencec1843
Pecksniffery1848
mawwormism1850
goody-good1851
lip-homage1858
devil-dodging1866
goody-goodiness1868
goody-goodyism1868
piosity1883
unctuosity1884
1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame sig. C Lip-holines in Cleargie men he could not brooke.
lip-homage n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun]
hypocrisy?c1225
pope-holya1425
saunteringc1440
pope-holiness1528
Pharisaism?1573
lip-holiness1591
lip-religion1597
hypocrism1605
lip-devotion1613
sanctimonya1618
lip-worship1656
sanctimoniousness1679
unction1692
sanctification1768
goodiness1808
pietism1829
lip-reverencec1843
Pecksniffery1848
mawwormism1850
goody-good1851
lip-homage1858
devil-dodging1866
goody-goodiness1868
goody-goodyism1868
piosity1883
unctuosity1884
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > in religion
lip-worship1656
lip-homage1858
1858 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains I. 46 The transcendentalist bestows upon it [Christianity] his lip-homage.
lip-love n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > in love
lip-love1703
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Philem. 7 There is a frozen Charity and a Lip-Love found among many Professors, whom Christ will disown at the great Day.
ΚΠ
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. iv. 10 Some conceive voluptuousnesse thereby is forbidden; others, lip-lusciousnesse and hypocrisie in divine service.
lip-physic n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > as comfort or service
lip service1590
lip-comfort1632
lip-physica1640
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iii4/1 This is cold comfort, And in a friend lip-physick.
lip-religion n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun]
hypocrisy?c1225
pope-holya1425
saunteringc1440
pope-holiness1528
Pharisaism?1573
lip-holiness1591
lip-religion1597
hypocrism1605
lip-devotion1613
sanctimonya1618
lip-worship1656
sanctimoniousness1679
unction1692
sanctification1768
goodiness1808
pietism1829
lip-reverencec1843
Pecksniffery1848
mawwormism1850
goody-good1851
lip-homage1858
devil-dodging1866
goody-goodiness1868
goody-goodyism1868
piosity1883
unctuosity1884
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 14 These marchants deceyve moche by there paynted faulshode and lipp religion.
lip-resignation n.
ΚΠ
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxix. 353 The Invisible Power that has been the object of..lip-resignation.
lip-revel n.
ΚΠ
1815 H. H. Milman Fazio (1821) 42 'Tis an old tale Thy fond lip-revel on a lady's beauties.
lip-reverence n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun]
hypocrisy?c1225
pope-holya1425
saunteringc1440
pope-holiness1528
Pharisaism?1573
lip-holiness1591
lip-religion1597
hypocrism1605
lip-devotion1613
sanctimonya1618
lip-worship1656
sanctimoniousness1679
unction1692
sanctification1768
goodiness1808
pietism1829
lip-reverencec1843
Pecksniffery1848
mawwormism1850
goody-good1851
lip-homage1858
devil-dodging1866
goody-goodiness1868
goody-goodyism1868
piosity1883
unctuosity1884
c1843 T. Carlyle Hist. Sketches (1898) 204 Not with lip-reverence but heart-reverence.
lip-reward n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] > reward with words only
lip-reward1595
1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile l To euery act shee giues huge lyp-reward.
lip-righteousness n.
ΚΠ
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 306 For the dupes Of human-kind keep this lip-righteousness!
lip-wisdom n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun]
tirology1560
lip-wisdoma1586
morosophy1594
slenderness1639
stall-learning1673
index-learning1728
sciolism1753
knowingness1819
pansciolism1868
smattery1892
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xviii. sig. L5 All is but lip-wisdome, which wants experience.
(ii)
(1) † lip-good adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 410 When his Grace is merely but lip-good . View more context for this quotation
lip-holy adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective]
pope-holya1387
Pharisaical1527
as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530
hypocritish1531
hypocritic1540
hypocritely1541
hypocritical1553
horse-holy?1589
sanctified1604
Pharisee-like1611
sanctimoniousa1616
Pharisaica1618
lip-holy1624
Bible-bearing1625
canting1663
unctuous1742
pietistical1753
pietical1782
goody-goody1785
goody1808
Sunday school1817
Pecksniffian1844
goodyish1848
goody-good1851
devil-dodging?1861
pietic1865
mawwormish1883
pietistic1884
mawwormy1885
pi1891
pietose1893
holier-than-thou1912
antimacassar1913
holy1958
1624 R. Davenport City Night-cap i. (1661) i. 2 She that is lip-holy, Is many times heart-hollow.
lip-learned adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [adjective]
sciolousa1400
superficial1559
smattering1581
superficial1603
shallowa1616
lip-learned1683
sciolistic1830
superficialized1907
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 531 The fashion which our Lip-learned Physitians and Apothecaries..practice is this [etc.].
lip-wise adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [adjective] > cautious in speech
lip-wise1603
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. li. 166 They only are good Pretors, to doe iustice in the Cittie,..that are subtile, cautelous, well-spoken, wily and lippe-wise.
(2) Frequently in terms of Phonetics.
lip-action n.
ΚΠ
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vi. 107 It is relative tenseness, too, which in addition to lip-action, makes the Italian vowels very different from those of English.
lip-articulation n.
ΚΠ
1910 Mod. Lang. Rev. 5 91 Lip-articulation in connection with tongue-articulation.
lip-closure n.
ΚΠ
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. 278 That lip-closure which is an essential part of the ordinary [m].
lip-consonant n.
ΚΠ
1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 61 The ‘shut’ consonants are sufficiently distinguished..by the four radical varieties ‘Back’, ‘Front’, ‘Point’, ‘Lip’.
1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 32 Lip. S.G. w in ‘wie’, ‘wo’ is an example of a pure lip consonant.
lip-opening n.
ΚΠ
1910 Mod. Lang. Rev. 5 93 The lip-opening is reduced to a narrow central aperture.
lip-position n.
ΚΠ
1929 Amer. Speech 4 414 The lip position of the Gascon sound was identical with that of the Parisian b.
lip-protrusion n.
ΚΠ
1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) xxi. 177 A correct English ʃ may be acquired by..retracting the tip of the tongue and exaggerating the lip-protrusion.
lip-rounded adj.
ΚΠ
1921 E. Sapir Lang. viii. 186 In foti ‘feet’ the long o was colored by the following i to long ö, that is, o kept its lip-rounded quality.
lip-rounding adj.
ΚΠ
1910 Mod. Lang. Rev. 5 93 The lip-rounding is less energetic.
1950 D. Jones Phoneme xxxi. 224 A..case..for representing the Japanese u by w on the ground that it has less lip-rounding than the European u-sounds.
lip-spreading adj.
ΚΠ
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 97 The English front vowels are mostly accompanied by lip-spreading.
1964 P. Strevens in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 121 Pupils may be exhorted to..‘smile a little as you say that’, in order to achieve voicing or lip-spreading.
b. Objective and objective genitive.
(a)
lip-biting n.
ΚΠ
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §10 589 How they had posted themselves in the View of the Prisoner, and made Signals at all Turns with Winks and Lipbitings.
lip-feeding n.
ΚΠ
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xiii. 52) God hath purposely put honey and milk under their tongues..that they may look to lip-feeding.
lip-treatment n.
ΚΠ
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 343 Neglect of this precaution is almost certain to produce failure of the lip-treatment.
(b)
lip-blushing adj.
ΚΠ
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. B By this lip blushing kisse.
lip-dewing adj.
ΚΠ
1791–3 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 132 Lip-dewing song.
c. Instrumental and locative.
lip-bearded adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > moustache
lip-bearded1615
mystacial1782
mustachioed1820
moustached1835
mystacal1888
1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving vi. 17 Meere Croanes..lip-bearded, as wiches.
lip-born adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adjective]
feignedc1374
unplaina1393
hollowa1529
hollow-hearted1549
foul1550
unsincere1577
insincere1634
unsound1714
lip-deep1802
lip-born1872
phoney1951
pseud1962
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxx. 279 Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?
lip-licked adj.
ΚΠ
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 4 Clouted complements, stolne Phrases, and lip-licked labours, of lamp-liuing spirits.
C2. Special combinations. Also lip-deep adj., lip-labour n., lipsalve n., lip service n., lip-worship n.† lip-berry n. Obsolete ? any small red berry, esp. that of the Arum.† lip-clip n. Obsolete a kiss.† lip-glass n. Obsolete (see quot. 1825).† lip-letter n. Obsolete a labial (labial n. 1).† lip-lick n. Obsolete a kiss.
lip-auger n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 549/2 A lip auger has pod and lip; in contradistinction to the screw auger.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Araceae (wake-robin and allies) > [noun] > fruit of the wake-robin
lip-berrya1609
oxberry1859
a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. xxxv. sig. C8v Lip berries from the bryar bush or weede.
1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 46 Lip-Berries. Whose true name is Aron-Berries, or Berries of Cookow-pints or Wake-Robin.
lip-bit n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lip-bit, a boring tool adapted to be used in a brace, and having a cutting lip projecting beyond the end of the barrel.
lip-blossomed adj. labiate.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. i. 15 The great natural family of lip-blossomed plants.
lip-bolt n. = lip-head bolt n.:
ΚΠ
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 38 These lip bolts are likewise shown.
lip-brush n. a small brush used to apply lipstick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > instruments or applicators > for lipstick
lip-brush1947
1947 Glamour Aug. 96 If you're aiming for makeup perfection..you'll naturally want the finest in lipbrushes.
1958 Woman's Own 10 Sept. 22/1 Does your cosmetic drawer contain either a lipbrush, hair-lacquer, scent atomiser, or an aerosol spray?
1960 News Chron. 21 June 6/2 Make the most of the mouth one has... This can only be done skilfully with a lip-brush.
lip-click n. a clicking noise made with the lips.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > ingressive > click
cluck1790
click1803
suction stop1887
lip-click1933
1933 E. Sitwell Eng. Eccentrics 18 The lip-clicks of the earthworms which are, it may be, amongst the earliest origins of our language.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun]
kissc1000
bassc1450
baisier1477
swapa1566
buss1567
smouch1578
lip-lick1582
lip-clip1606
tuck1611
accolade1654
poguec1670
osculum1706
slobber1884
banger1898
snog1959
1606 Wily Beguilde 21 A Maid cannot loue, or catch a lip clip, or lap clap, but heers such tittle tattle.
lip-fern n. (see quot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns
mountain parsley1578
female fern1597
rock parsley1597
spleenwort1597
marsh fern1686
prickly fern1764
parsley fern1777
sensitive fern1780
lady fern1783
stone-brake1796
mountain fern1800
rock brake1802
walking leaf1811
todea1813
shield-fern1814
Woodsia1815
mangemange1817
cinnamon fern1818
climbing fern1818
bladder-fern1828
king fern1829
filmy fern1830
ostrich fern1833
New York fern1843
mokimoki1844
rhizocarp1852
film-fern1855
nardoo1860
gymnogram1861
holly-fern1861
limestone-polypody1861
elk-horn1865
Gleichenia1865
lizard's herb1866
cliff brake1867
kidney fern1867
Christmas fern1873
Prince of Wales feathers1873
Christmas shield fern1878
buckler-fern1882
crape-fern1882
stag-horn1882
ladder fern1884
oleander fern1884
stag fern1884
resam1889
lip-fern1890
coral-fern1898
bamboo fern1930
pteroid1949
fern-gale-
1890 Cent. Dict. Lip-fern, a fern of the genus Cheilanthes; in allusion to the lip-like indusium.
lip-full adj. dialect full to the lips.
ΚΠ
1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 16 The recent rains have..swollen the river lip full.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > lip-glass or tooth-glass
wash-tumbler1774
lip-glass1825
tooth-glass1858
1825 T. Cosnett Footman's Direct. 128 Two sets of finger-glasses, and lip-glasses for the company to wash their mouths in.
lip gloss n. a glossy cosmetic applied to the lips.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the lips
lipsalve1591
lip balm1853
lipstick1880
chapstick1891
lip pencil1904
lip-rouge1926
lip gloss1939
lippy1955
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 437/1 Max Factor... Lip gloss—2/6.
1972 Country Life 4 May 1127/3 I have now come to..like lip gloss... These shiny lip colours have several good uses. You can use them alone for a pale, glossy look or you can put them over a lipstick to add gloss.
1972 Vogue June 90 Blueberry Wine Lipstick matching Lip Gloss.
lip-head bolt n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lip-head Bolt, a bolt with a head projecting sideways.
lip-hook n. (a) the upper hook of several on a line, which is put through the lip of a live bait; (b) ‘a grapnel for catching in the lip of the whale, to tow it to the vessel’ (Knight).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > top hook
lip-hook1870
1870 H. Cholmondeley-Pennell Mod. Pract. Angler 12 The lip-hook is a very important portion of the spinning-flight.
1870 H. Cholmondeley-Pennell Mod. Pract. Angler 208 The single lip-hook is passed through the upper lip of the bait.
lip-language n. language communicated by movements of the lips; cf. lip-reading n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [noun] > lip-reading
labiomancy1686
lip-reading1874
lip-language1879
speech-reading1891
1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 209 The German method of instructing deaf-mutes by lip-language.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > labial
lip-letter1591
labial1650
bilabial1894
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. Bv B is a lip letter.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun]
kissc1000
bassc1450
baisier1477
swapa1566
buss1567
smouch1578
lip-lick1582
lip-clip1606
tuck1611
accolade1654
poguec1670
osculum1706
slobber1884
banger1898
snog1959
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 19 When she shal embrace thee, when lyplicks sweetlye she fastneth.
lip-line n. the outline of a person's lips.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > lip or lips > outline of
lip-line1951
1951 W. Sansom Face of Innocence ii. 21 A smell of coffee and cigars blended with the black perfume and the red lipline of Eve's presence.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. (Suppl.) 5/3 It is seldom the young who apply their lipstick badly. Their natural lip-line is still clear.
lip microphone n. (see quot. 1941).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > microphone
carbon transmitter1878
microphone1878
carbon microphone1879
pantelephone1881
phonoscope1890
mike1911
condenser microphone1921
magnetophone1922
radio microphone1922
ionophone1924
crystal microphone1925
ribbon microphone1925
radio mike1926
laryngophone1927
velocity microphone1931
ribbon mike1933
pressure microphone1934
bug1936
eight ball1937
ribbon1937
throat microphone1937
throat mike1937
rifle microphone1938
parabolic microphone1939
lip microphone1941
intercept1942
spike mike1950
spy-mike1955
spy-microphone1960
mic1961
rifle mike1961
gun microphone1962
spike microphone1962
shotgun microphone1968
Lavallière1972
wire1973
sneaky1974
multi-mikes1990
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 17 Lip microphone, type of ribbon microphone designed to be held close to the mouth and to eliminate extraneous sounds reaching it from either side.
1949 Electronic Engin. 21 354 There will be a commentator's box equipped with a lip microphone.
lip pencil n. (see pencil n. 2c).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the lips
lipsalve1591
lip balm1853
lipstick1880
chapstick1891
lip pencil1904
lip-rouge1926
lip gloss1939
lippy1955
1904 N.E.D. at Pencil sb. Lip pencil.
1948 Woman & Beauty Dec. 57 (caption) One of the new Gala lip pencils.
lip-piece n. a plug of wood thrust through the lip and worn as an ornament.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > nose and lip ornaments > [noun]
nose-jewel1611
nose-ring1652
nose-ornament1695
lip-piece1796
labret1831
nose-nail1862
lip-ring1866
labretifery1884
lip-plug1894
bullring1992
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 111 (note) This custom of the women's wearing the ‘lip-piece’ by way of ornament.
lip-pipe n. Organ-building a flue-pipe.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > other pipes
recorder1613
reed pipe1728
labial pipe1837
mouth pipe1842
trumpet-pipe1844
lip-pipe1855
1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ 354 Lip, mouth, or flue pipes..are such as have an oblong opening, called the mouth..bounded above and below by two edges called the lips; which are made to sound by the wind first passing through a narrow fissure, flue, or wind-way.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) iv. 23 Flue-pipes are also called Labial, or lip-pipes.
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lip-plate n. the hypostome of trilobites ( Cent. Dict.).
lip-plug n. = lip-piece n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > nose and lip ornaments > [noun]
nose-jewel1611
nose-ring1652
nose-ornament1695
lip-piece1796
labret1831
nose-nail1862
lip-ring1866
labretifery1884
lip-plug1894
bullring1992
1894 Nation (N.Y.) 14 June 451/1 The Suyá are made fun of for their lip-plug, or botoco.
lip-print n. the imprint made by a person's lips.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > lip-print
lip-print1934
1934 ‘J. Rhode’ Poison for One ii. ii. 92 Has it [sc. a drinking-glass] been examined for what I may term lip-prints?
1970 New Scientist 3 Sept. 455/2 They have collected lip prints from 280 people, using a technique akin to finger printing.
lip-read v. (transitive and intransitive) to apprehend (someone, or what someone says) by observing the movement of the lips.
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the mind > language > a language > [verb (intransitive)] > lip-read
lip-read1892
the mind > language > a language > [verb (transitive)] > lip-read
lip-read1892
1892 Strand Mag. Mar. 250/2 He..lip read the advocates who examined him.
1892 Strand Mag. Mar. 251/1 He would like to test the lad's ability to speak, and to lip read.
1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Dec. 80/1 An arithmetic class where questions..were not only heard (or, rather, lip-read) but answered.
1927 Daily Express 12 Dec. 10/7 Only a small proportion of them [sc. the deaf] are expert lip-readers; they seem to think it wonderful when some one else can lip-read fluently and they cannot.
1946 Sat. Evening Post 9 Mar. 10/2 Tele addicts contend they see football better than from any seat in the stadium, and can lip-read the signals.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 170 My deaf friend preferred to switch it off and lip-read.
1973 C. Carfax Sleeping Salamander vii. 66 Watching, I lipread rather than heard his words.
lip-reader n.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > lip-reading > one who uses
speech-reader1911
lip-reader1912
1912 Strand Mag. Jan. 15/1 In those days this youthful lip-reader had no name for her gift of seeing speech.
1912 Strand Mag. Mar. 243 The Experiences of a Lip-reader.
1927 Daily Express 12 Dec. 10/7 Only a small proportion of them [sc. the deaf] are expert lip-readers; they seem to think it wonderful when some one else can lip-read fluently and they cannot.
1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 242 There was Dodge, the lip reader,..a seeker like her after hidden faces.
1974 R. C. Dennis Conversations with Corpse ii. 10 A pity you aren't a lip reader.
lip-reading n. the apprehending of what another says by watching the movements of his or her lips.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > lip-reading
labiomancy1686
lip-reading1874
lip-language1879
speech-reading1891
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. §185 a. 204 It has long been known that individuals among the Deaf-and-Dumb have acquired the power of ‘lip-reading’.
lip-ring n. a ring passed through the lip, and worn as an ornament.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > nose and lip ornaments > [noun]
nose-jewel1611
nose-ring1652
nose-ornament1695
lip-piece1796
labret1831
nose-nail1862
lip-ring1866
labretifery1884
lip-plug1894
bullring1992
1866 D. Livingstone 19 Apr. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. i. 24 The teeth are filed to points, and huge lip-rings are worn by the women.
lip-rouge n. red cosmetic for the lips.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the lips
lipsalve1591
lip balm1853
lipstick1880
chapstick1891
lip pencil1904
lip-rouge1926
lip gloss1939
lippy1955
1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 11/1 Leave a good impression, use lots of lip rouge.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 76 She smeared liprouge on his nose.
lip-smacking n. the act of smacking one's lips (see smack v.2 1); also as adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [noun] > keen appetite > lip-smacking
lip-smacking1947
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere vii. 124 With lip smacking over swigs of cooking sherry, it was felt that luxury could go no farther.
1958 New Yorker 11 Oct. 39/1 I wanted..a slogan that would capsulize the lip-smacking flavor of the soups.
1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 21 Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey.
lip-speaking n. speaking to one who is deaf by means of movements of the lips (cf. lip-reading n.).
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1880 Times 28 Sept. 9/5 If lip-speaking could not be taught, the deaf, while they must have continued a community apart, would have [etc.].
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lip-spine n. Conchology a spine on the edge of a shell ( Cent. Dict.).
lip-strap n. (see quot.).
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1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 232 Lip-strap, a small strap with a buckle passing from one cheek of the bit through a ring in the centre of the curb chain to the other cheek, for the purpose of preventing the horse from seizing the cheek of the bit in his mouth.
lip-sworn adj. that has taken an oath of secrecy.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > disposed to secrecy, secretive > having taken oath
lip-sworn1602
1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E4v Your lip-sworne seruant may there visit you as a Phisition.
lip-sync n. (also lip-synch) lip-synchronization n.
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1972 Cinema Rising Aug. 2/2 A feature-length Western, and a lip-synch musical.
lip-sync v. (intransitive)
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1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 55 Lip sync, to move the lips in synchronization with a recorded sound; to pantomime with a recording.
lip-synchronization n. (see quots.).
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > systems of
phonography1861
wire recording1933
stereophony1950
half-track1956
stereo1956
stereophonics1958
lip-synchronization1959
mono1959
monophony1959
pretaping1959
over-recording1961
Dolby1966
quadraphonics1968
quadraphony1969
surround sound1969
periphony1970
quad1971
multitrack1972
quadraphonic1972
quadro1972
pseudoquadraphony1975
multitracking1977
vertical recording1982
bitstream1989
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > exact matching of sound and picture > of music and action or words
Mickey-Mousing1954
lip-synchronization1959
1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 107/1 Lip synchronization. Abbreviated to Lip sync. The recording of sound, usually at the same time as its associated picture, so that on projection of the completed film, the words uttered synchronize exactly with the performer's lip movements as shown in the picture.
lip-synchronized adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > mimed
lip-synchronized1957
1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music ii. 27 The Jazz Singer..introduced in certain sequences lip-synchronized singing by Al Jolson.
lip-syncing n.
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1970 M. Tormé Other Side of Rainbow (1971) iii. 50 A decision was made to prerecord one of Judy's songs, which she would lip-sync on the show. While lip-syncing is anathema to most singers, it was Judy's particular teacup.
lip-thatch n. jocular a moustache.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache
mustachio1551
mustachio beard1566
moustache1585
mustachiosa1593
bigote1622
dibble1631
umbrage1657
whisker1706
lip-wing1825
facial hair1830
mousetail1853
lip-hair1873
lip-thatch1892
hackles1894
mo1894
tash1894
zit1912
mouser1922
stash1940
taz1951
stache1963
mush1967
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 167 For each man knows, ere his lip-thatch grows, he is master of Art and Truth.
lip-tooth n. a tooth on the lip of a shell.
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1886 E. D. Cope Origin Fittest (1887) v. 178 The lip-teeth characteristic of the genus Triodopsis.
lip-vein n. a labial vein (see labial adj. 2b).
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > parts of
labium1598
lip-vein1598
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein
middle veina1398
portaa1398
saphena1398
funisa1400
sciaticaa1400
guidesc1400
haemorrhoidc1400
salvatellac1400
liver veina1425
median?a1425
mesaraic?a1425
sciatic?a1425
venal artery?a1425
sciat1503
organal vein1523
axillar?1541
weeping vein1543
port-vein1586
lip-vein1598
nose vein1598
sciatic vein1598
cephalic vein1599
hollow vein1605
jugular1615
scapulary1615
subclavian vein1615
umbilical vessel1615
basilica1625
porter-vein1625
neck vein1639
garter-vein1656
matricious vein1656
sacred vein1656
subclavicular1656
subclavial1664
vertebral1718
portal vein1765
cava1809
satellite vein1809
brachial1859
innominate vein1866
precaval1866
postcava1882
precava1882
postcaval1891
Vesalian vein1891
sciatic1892
subcardinal1902
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 29 b/2 The seaventh is the lippe vayne, whereof on each syde are two.
lip-wing n. jocular a moustache.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache
mustachio1551
mustachio beard1566
moustache1585
mustachiosa1593
bigote1622
dibble1631
umbrage1657
whisker1706
lip-wing1825
facial hair1830
mousetail1853
lip-hair1873
lip-thatch1892
hackles1894
mo1894
tash1894
zit1912
mouser1922
stash1940
taz1951
stache1963
mush1967
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 58 Twirled the dexter side of his lip-wing.
lip-work n. = lip-labour n.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun] > action of kissing
kissinga1300
bassing1546
lip-labour1582
bussing1583
smouching1583
slavering1607
lip-work1631
suaviation1656
deosculation1658
osculation1658
bussa1721
basiation1879
kissage1886
mugging1890
oscularity1926
snogging1945
smash-mouth1965
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition
lip-labour?1548
lip-labouring1549
hibber-gibber1593
lip-work1631
echolalia1885
parrotese1889
rhubarb1919
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > talk
lip-labour?1548
lip-labouring1549
canting1659
cant1709
lip-work1894
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse i. iv. 89 in Wks. II And I except all kissing..I forbid all lip-worke.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 10 Manuals, and Handmaids of Devotion, the lip-work of every Prelatical Liturgist, clapt together, and quilted out of Scripture phrase.
1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. lxix. 231 There can be no doubt..that Marlborough did make these protestations of penitence..But it was all lip-work.
lip-working adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] > given to meaningless repetition
gabbling1566
lip-laborious1630
lip-working1642
echolalian1927
echolaliac1931
echolalic1938
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 47 Their office is to pray for others. And not to be the lip-working deacons of other mens appointed words.
lip-wort seed n. nonce-word (humorous) = idle talk.
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1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes lxxi, in Wks. sig. Ddii Lyuerwort I haue none: but Lipwort seede I haue.
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lip stud n. an ornamental stud worn through a pierced lip.
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1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 598 The characteristic lip-stud of the western Eskimos, of which a pair is now universally worn in the under lip, one at each corner of the mouth.
2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling li. 316 They've even got the same lip stud.
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The leading, curling edge of a breaking wave.
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1858 Athenæum 20 Feb. 246/1 We shall now hope to see in painting the curling lip of the wave with the shadow on the transparent slope of the water-mountain below.
1907 Harper's Monthly Mag. 1 June 56/1 His teeth shone in the gloom like foam on a wave's lip in black storm.
1966 Des Moines (Iowa) Sunday Reg. 24 July (This Week section) 8/1 His board got too close to the lip of the wave and, in surfer talk, our hero is ‘bailing out’.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 194 I back-doored the barrel and raced under the lip as it passed over.
2010 Guardian 25 May (G2 section) 12/2 The lip of the wave is thrown forward so that it curls over to form a tube before crashing to the water below.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
lipv.1
/lɪp/, U.S. /lɪp/ 1. absolute.1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine III. ix. 149 It did not lip, or lap, or ripple,..as all well-meaning rivers do.
a. transitive. To touch with the lips, apply the lips to.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with mouth or tongue > touch with mouth or tongue [verb (transitive)] > touch with lips
moutha1500
lip1826
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (transitive)] > lips
sever1398
sparec1400
prim1707
mimp1710
pout1748
lip1826
unpurse1838
mouth1960
1826 E. Irving Babylon I. iv. 262 As it were lipping the cup, whose bitterness this generation shall have to drink.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 166 Or the bubble on the wine, which breaks Before you lip the glass.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xviii. 154 After the final adjustment of the mouthpiece lipping the instrument with an affectation exquisitely grotesque.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xiv. 181 No good sheep-dog even so much as lips a sheep to turn it.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 275/1 Lip, to, to adjust the lips so as to produce the proper tone of wind-instruments played by the mouth.
b. To kiss. poetic.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [verb (transitive)]
kissc900
reachOE
bassc1500
to lay on the lips1530
bussa1566
swap1577
smouch1588
lip1605
bause1607
suaviate1650
to pree a person's mouth1724
accolade1843
to give (someone) onec1882
to give (a person) some sugar1921
steups1967
1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe i. sig. B2 Lip her, Lip her knaue.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 70 To lip a wanton in a secure Coach. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 30 A hand that Kings Haue lipt, and trembled kissing. View more context for this quotation
a1845 Hood What can old Men do? ii Love will not clip him, Maids will not lip him.
1871 D. G. Rossetti Eden Bower in Poems xix Lip me and listen.
1888 Harper's Mag. Dec. 116 With the traders' wives made merry, Lipped the young and mocked the old.
c. transferred. Of water: To kiss, to lap.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [verb (transitive)] > beat upon or dash over (a ship) > lap against
lip1842
lap1855
1842 Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in Poems (new ed.) II. 42 The dying ebb..faintly lipp'd The flat red granite.
1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing II. 61 Her cargo was..stowed away by deck and hold, till the waters lipped the gunwale.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. i. 5 When the waxing element lips..but a single pebble of the founder's name.
1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 110 The clear cold crystal of a mossy pool Lipped the soft emerald marge.
1889 ‘G. Herring’ & ‘M. Ross’ Irish Cousin II. ii. iv. 34 The murmur of the sea, slightly lipping the rocks.
2.
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a. To pronounce with the lips only; to murmur softly.
b. To take upon one's lips, to utter (? obsolete); (slang) to sing (a song).
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
speakc825
queatheOE
forthdoc900
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sayeOE
speak971
meleOE
quidOE
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wield1581
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up with (also mid) ——1594
name1595
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tonguea1616
to bring out1665
voice1665
emit1753
lip1789
to out with1802
pitch1811
go1836
to open one's head1843
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shoot1915
verbal1920
be1982
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)]
singc825
leadOE
galea1000
record1483
chant1566
modulate?1567
carol?1578
strain1589
relish1592
lyrica1704
vocalize1782
lip1789
flute1842
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 124 But come, I'll lip ye a chaunt.
1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 353 Sir John lipt us the favourite chaunt of Jerry Abershaw's ‘Ye scamps [etc.].’
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 48 Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name Most fondly lipp'd.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pilgrims of Rhine v. 68 The aspirant's fame..is lipped by the Babel of the living world.
1861 Temple Bar 1 169 A respectable British Bacchus..lipping soft lyrics to the blushing Ariadne at his side.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xiii. 274 ‘Ah, I thought my memory didn't deceive me!’ he lipped silently.
1893 ‘B. Abbotsford’ But 74 I lipped ‘Good-morning’ to him.
1896 Punch 11 Jan. 15/1 There's Arnold and there's Morris, both can lip the laureate line.
c. To insult, abuse, be impudent to (someone). dialect or colloquial.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > treat impudently [verb (transitive)] > speak impudently to
sauce1822
to give (a person) sauce1823
sass1836
cheek1840
chin1871
lip1898
back-sass1917
smart-mouth1970
1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 93 He lipt mi rarely.
1902 Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 618/1 He's lipt mi as Ah was never lipt afoor.
1941 Penguin New Writing 3 65 Young Ernie was lippin' me just before you come in.
1972 A. Draper Death Penalty ii. 18 If anyone lips you, just swallow it.
3. (Chiefly Scottish)† c. To overlay the lip or edge of (a vessel).
a. intransitive. Of water, etc.: To rise to, cover, or flow over the lip or brim of a vessel. Also with in, over. Also of the vessel: To have the water, etc. flowing over its brim or edge.
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1703 D. Williamson Serm. before Gen. Assembly Edinb. 49 The wrath of God lipping in over their Souls.
1839 R. M. M'Cheyne in Mem. (1872) 334 It [your joy] will be like a bowl lipping over.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 231 To carry..[the waterpail] with the water lipping at the edge.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xvii. 135 The gunwale was lipping astern.
b. transitive. To serve as a lip or margin to.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > specific
purfle1562
frame1705
fringe1794
lip1845
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xx. 478 Oval basins of coral-work just lipping the surface of the sea.
1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley II. xviii. 305 The margin..instead of being rough and rocky, lips the pool with gentleness.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge
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marge1852
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 723 With the hornes are made drinking Cups, and for that purpose the richer sort of people do edge or lip them ouer with siluer and gold.
d. To notch on the lip or edge.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > indent the edge of [verb (transitive)]
indentc1430
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1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 323 That broth pot ladle, sorely lipped, and riven.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 216 It were worth lipping a good blade before wrong were offered to it.
e. intransitive. Pathology. Of a bone: To form a lip or morbid outgrowth at the extremity. Also of a casting: To have an irregular projection at the edge.
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1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 3/1 When a statue is cast in several pieces and one of the pieces ‘lips’.
1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 June 1188/1 The lipping of the articular ends of the bones being characteristic.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 106 The presence of bony thickening and lipping about the joints.
f. transitive. Golf. To drive the ball just to the lip or edge of (a hole).
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1899 Daily News 24 Apr. 10/6 At the fourteenth Mr. B. again lipped the hole and lost.
g. Scottish. To fill the interstices of (a wall) up to the lips or face.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 115 Walls..may frequently be made either more durable, or more ornamental, by being dashed, lipped, or harled with lime.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 307 He has built stone dikes of more than 9 miles in length lipped and pointed with lime.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† lipv.2
Obsolete.
transitive. To cut off (the head of an animal); to cut short, prune (a root); to shear (a sheep).
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)] > by specific method
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop > prune (root)
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > shear sheep [verb (transitive)]
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c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 1032 Sone þe hed fro þe hals, Hit lyputt full euyn.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 21 Lightly to barbe and pluck off with a sarcling hook, the beards or strings of the root; that being thus nipped and lipped..they might [etc.].
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 608 Their sheepe bring foorth twice in a yeare, and are likewise twice lipped.
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