单词 | underlip |
释义 | underlipn. 1. a. The lower lip of a person, animal, or insect. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > lip or lips > lower sublabe1577 underlip1669 jiba1825 1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 25 The Tongue and under-Lip..are moveable. 1728 J. Arbuthnot Acct. State of Learning in Lilliput 16 At that..he put out his Under-Lip. 1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed v. 71 His Tongue a little advanced on his Under-lip. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 124 These maxillæ of larvæ were regarded..as parts of the under-lip, on each side of which they are situated. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud ii, in Maud & Other Poems 11 An underlip, you may call it a little too ripe, too full. 1882 ‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versâ i His big underlip drooped rather weakly. b. spec. (See quot. 1908.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > lip or part of underlip1908 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 32 ‘Upperlip’ and ‘underlip’ are the names used to denote white skin at the edges of the lips [of horses]. 2. In an organ pipe: (see quots.). ΘΚΠ 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 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 78 The under lip, on the foot, and immediately below the language. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1709/2 The foot is an inverted cone, formed in a similar manner, and having a corresponding indentation, called the under lip. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1669 |
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