Lip , v. t. To clip; to trim. [Obs.]
Holland.
Lip , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lipped (l&ibreve;pt);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lipping (-p&ibreve;ng).]
1.
To touch with the lips; to put the lips
to; hence, to kiss.
The bubble on
the wine which breaks
Before you lip the glass.
Praed. A hand that kings
Have lipped and trembled kissing.
Shak.
2. To utter; to speak. [R.] Keats.
Lip (l&ibreve;p),
n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip,
G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. læbe, Sw. läpp, L. labium, labrum. Cf.
Labial.]
1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth
in man and many other animals. In man the lips
are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all
the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
Thine own lips testify against thee.
Job xv.
6. 2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the
lip of a
vessel.
3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
4. (Bot.) (a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate
corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
5. (Zoöl.) One of the edges
of the aperture of a
univalve shell.
Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. -- Lip comfort, comfort that is given with
words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. -- Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. Bale.
-- Lip reading, the catching of the words or
meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his
lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. -- Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. -- Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. -- Lip work. (a) Talk. (b)
Kissing. [Humorous] B. Jonson. -- To make a lip,
to drop the under lip
in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out
the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.
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