lip

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  1. noun Anatomy Either of two fleshy folds that surround the opening of the mouth.
  2. noun A structure or part that encircles or bounds an orifice, as:
  3. noun Anatomy A labium.
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  • Alleyn noticed that there was a slight tic in his upper-lip, a busy little cord that flicked under the dark skin. —  Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
  • Every feature was deformed and unnatural; a horrible hare-lip, the cleft extending half way up his nose externally, and pair of tushes projecting from his upper jaw, completed his bill of horrors. —  The Swamp Doctor's Adventures
  • Chewing on her lip was the only way she could keep from laughing ... or screaming. —  Garwood, Julie - Killjoy.html
  • Yet when Mr. Zangwill refers to the Mephistophelian curl of Lord Beaconsfield's lip, the word is used advisedly. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
  • It caught on her bottom lip, because her lip was dry.
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mouth ·  cheek ·  face ·  shoulder ·  finger ·  smile ·  throat ·  breast ·  hair ·  tongue ·  skin ·  tooth

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lip:   lips
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English lippa; see leb- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English lip, lyp, lippe, lyppe, from Anglo-Saxon lippa, lippe = OFries. lippa, Friesic lippe = Middle Dutch lippe, Dutch lip = Middle Low German Low German lippe (later G. Danish lippe, lip, = Old French lipe, lype, lippe, a lip, especially, as F. lippe and Middle Latin lipium, a thick under lip; cf. Swedish läpp = Danish læbe, lip, apparently from Low German, but modified by L. labium); with orig. formative -ja (and akin to Old High German lefs, leps, Middle High German lefs, leps, lefse, German lefze, with variant Old High German leppur = Old Saxon lepur, lip, with orig. formative -as), = Latin labium (later Spanish Portuguese labio), lip, with variant labrum (= Old High German lefs, leppur, above?) (later Italian labbro = Spanish Portuguese labro = French lèvre), lip; cf. Gaelic liob (perhaps from English), Lithuanian lupa, Hindustani lub, Persian lab, lip. Connection with lap (Latin lambere, etc.) is improbable; the phonetic conditions do not agree, and it is not the lips, but the tongue, that ‘laps.’
  2. from lip, n.
 

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