Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The upper lip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The upper lip.
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- noun obsolete The
upper lip .
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- noun the upper lip
Etymologies
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Examples
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I passed along the western side of the lake, where the ground was easier, and when I had got about half way I expected that I should see the plains which I had already seen from the opposite mountains; but it was not to be so, for the clouds rolled up to the very summit of the pass, though they did not overlip it on to the side from which I had come.
Erewhon 2003
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I passed along the western side of the lake, where the ground was easier, and when I had got about half way I expected that I should see the plain which I had already seen from the opposite mountains but it was not to be so, for the clouds rolled up to the very summit of the pass, though they did not overlip it on to the side from which I had come.
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I had got about half way I expected that I should see the plains which I had already seen from the opposite mountains; but it was not to be so, for the clouds rolled up to the very summit of the pass, though they did not overlip it on to the side from which I had come.
Erewhon Samuel Butler 1868
yarb commented on the word overlip
...the clouds rolled up to the very summit of the pass, though they did not overlip it on to the side from which I had come.
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon
July 18, 2008