lip

noun

visible part of mouth
part of a plate

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /lɪp/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
“[…]thine owne lippes teſtifie againſt thee.”
A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
“[…]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…]”
The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
“The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass.”
Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
“Don’t give me any lip!”
“Kevin Sutherland: I've had enough of your lip!”
The edge of a high spot of land.
“We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip of the Falls. On reaching that lip, and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us.”
“They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river.”
The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
Clipping of lipstick.
“I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.”

verb

To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
“[…] a hand that Kings / Haue lipt, and trembled kiſſing.”
“Our love was like the bright snow-flakes, Which melt before you pass, Or the bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass;”
To touch lightly.
“He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars.”
To wash against a surface, lap.
“It was very soothing and restful up there on the saloon deck, with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water as it rippled against the sides of the steamer.”
“So on I went, and by my side, it seemed, Paced a great bull, kept from me by a brook Which lipped the grass about it as it streamed Over the flagroots that the grayling shook;”
To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
“Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea.”
“The rest of the herd were grouped so close to the water’s edge that from time to time a lazy, leaden-green swell would come lipping up and splash them.”
To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
“[…] old Macrae, of Adrfeulan Farm near by, had caused rude steps to be cut in the funnel-like hollow rising sheer up from the sloping ledge that lipped the chasm and reached the summit of the scaur.”
“1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242, It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.”
To utter verbally.
“Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name / Most fondly lipp’d […]”
To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
““Ah, I thought my memory didn’t deceive me!” he lipped silently.”
“And as he read, lipping the words, he thought of his own boyhood […]”
To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
““I shall find the ball to the left of a patch of sword grass near the hole,” he said. “My second will lip the hole, I know it as well as if I could see the whole thing.””
“Lambert just missed his three; his putt lipped the hole before finishing two feet past it.”
To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.