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February 10, 2012

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(467) Words.

a
above
absolute
add
address
adoration
agree
aiglet
almanack
alphest
alter
analemma
anomaliped
apostle
approach
as
ascendant
ascending
astronomy
avalange
b
bailpiece
band
banoy
barbastel
beard
beclip
bedstaff
befall
bellipotent
best
bilabiate
blind
blobberlipped
blobberllip
blubbered
bototoe
bougie
brim
bucao
bulb
buss
cable
cagit
calculate
calf
caliber
calif
caliphate
calk
call
callipers
camel
can
carry
cease
cherry
cheslip
cion
circle
cizar
clip
clipped
clipper
clipping
clipt
cloud-eclipsed
coincide
collar
colure
come
comet
commissure
complain
concision
confirmation
conic
conical
conjugate
conoid
consolidate
constrictor
contend
contention
conversation
count
cows-lip
cowslip
crab-yaws
crown
curtate
cut
cylindroid
dag
descend
describe
dew-lap
digit
disastrous
disjunctive
disperse
dispute
disputing
dissemble
dissuade
divine
dock
docking
dragons-head
drive
drop-wort
eccentricity
eclipse
eclipsed
eclipsing
ecliptic
elapse
elevator
elk
ellipse
ellipsis
ellipsoid
ellipsoidal
elliptic
elliptical
elliptically
elm
emerge
emersion
emir
ephemeris
equinoctial
escurial
evade
evading
exceed
excretory
f
fail
fair
fall
false
fifth
fiftieth
fight
fillip
fit
flap
flapmouthed
flee
flip
flipdog
flippancy
flippant
flippantly
flippantness
focus
foothold
for
forbid
forgetfulness
fourscore
freckled
from
frostnail
galipot
galletyle
gallipot
gavilan
gemelliparous
german
give
glib
glibness
glide
glutinous
golden
gore
grin
grind
grudge
hances
hang
hare
harelip
harelipped
health
heliocentric
helmet
hence
hippocras
his
hold
home
hoop
hope
immersion
incised
inclination
inclip
indulge
ingress
inquire
instead
intend
interposition
intersect
isthmus
join
kalifate
kiss
kissing
label
labial
labiated
labiodental
lamprey
landslip
landstreight
lapse
lath
latitude
leap
levator
light
like
limb
lip
lip-devotion
liplabor
lipogram
lipogrammatist
lipothymous
lipothymy
lipped
lippitude
lipwisdom
livid
lubric
lubricate
lubricated
lubricating
lubricous
lubrictiy
lubrification
m
magnolia
maidenlip
make
mince
mistake
moose
more
morse
mother
mourn
mouth
mullet
mumble
muse
mustaches
mutter
need
nigh
night
nip
nipping
node
nonagesimal
notwithstanding
nourish
nutation
o
obliquity
obscuration
obscure
occultation
offend
one
open
orbit
ordinate
other
oval
overslip
oxlip
p
pachydermatous
pagil
pantofle
paralipomena
parameter
parapegm
parceling
paring
partake
partially
penumbra
period
periphery
personate
pew
philippic
philippize
phylactery
piece
pine
place
plane
point
pole
poll
pollard
pollenin
porcupine
post-haste
pout
pouting
pray
precession
precisely
present
primrose
print
privy-signet
prodigy
prohibition
proof
q
quadrant
range
ready
rectify
relapse
remain
reprobation
reproduction
resupinate
reticle
reversed
right
ringent
ripe
roam
rove
rubied
ruby
ruddiness
ruddy
rugous
run
sago
sail
sandal
sardonic
satisfy
scapulary
scarlet
scruple
seat
seed-lip
shadow
shear
sheared
sheer
shoot
shorten
shoulder-slip
sign
silence
sip
sipped
slape
slidderly
slide
sliding
slip
slipper
slippered
slipperily
slipperiness
slippery
slippy
slipshod
slipstring
slope
smack
snare
snip
snipper
snow-slip
snub
so
solstice
squint
stablestand
staircase
start
steal
stop
strange
strap
stray
strike
studier
sup
surge
swoon
this
though
thrid
thwite
tonsil
tonsure
topiary
trajectory
tremulous
trim
trimmed
tulip
tulip-tree
tumor
u
uncertainty
unclipped
uneclipsed
unilabiate
unshorn
unslipping
up
uphold
upper
v
variegate
vase
vault
vaulted
vector
venial
verge
vibrate
vilipend
vilipendency
violent
voluble
w
wade
walk
wander
wariness
wash
way-pane
welcome
what
whereto
whisper
whistle
whistling
whitewood
who
will
wink
work
yea
year
zest
zodiac

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1828 Definition

LIP, n. [L. labium, labrum.]

1. The edge or border of the mouth. The lips are two fleshy or muscular parts, composing the exterior of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man, the lips, which may be opened or closed at pleasure, form the covering of the teeth, and are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence the lips, by a figure, denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Job. 2.

2. The edge of any thing; as the lip of a vessel.

3. In botany, one of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corol. The upper is called the helmet, and the lower the beard. Also, an appendage to the flowers of the orchises, considered by Linne as a nectary.

To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt.

LIP, v.t. To kiss.

1913 Definition

Lip (lip)
n.	(l***ibreve]p)
Lip
[OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. læbe, Sw. läpp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.]

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.

An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

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.

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.

To utter; to speak.

[R.] Keats.

To clip; to trim.

[Obs.] Holland.

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