LIP

lip

(noun) either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod’s shell

brim, rim, lip

(noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container

lip

(noun) either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking

sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth

(noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder; “don’t give me any of your sass”

lip

(noun) (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)

(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

Synonym: labium

(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

Synonym: labium

(by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.

Synonyms: edge, rim, spout

(slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

Synonyms: backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness

The edge of a high spot of land.

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.

(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

(music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)

(transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

(transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.

(intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.

(intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

(transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

(transitive) To utter verbally.

(transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

(sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

(transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Anagrams

• LPI

Noun

LIP (plural LIPs)

Abbreviation of large igneous province.

Abbreviation of litigant in person.

Anagrams

• LPI

Source: Wiktionary

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Lip, n. Etym: [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. Jeb 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.)

Definition: 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.

– Lip 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.

Lip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lipping.]

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, v. t.

Definition: To clip; to trim. [Obs.] Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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