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Lip   /lɪp/   Listen
Lip

noun
1.
Either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking.
2.
(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx.
3.
An impudent or insolent rejoinder.  Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, mouth, sass, sassing.
4.
The top edge of a vessel or other container.  Synonyms: brim, rim.
5.
Either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell.



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"Lip" Quotes from Famous Books



... overbearing autocrat exclaimed in a voice of thunder: "Madam, let me hear no more of this! Don't quote your popish authorities to me; I want none of your popery!" But seeing that his friend was overwhelmed with the shock he gave her, his countenance instantly changed; his lip quivered, and his eyes filled with tears. He gently took her hand, and with the deepest emotion exclaimed: "Child, never mind what I have said,—follow true piety wherever you find it." This anecdote is a ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII • John Lord

... days after the new arrival nothing happened, so far as we knew, except that Griz always laid her ears back, and looked queer about her under lip, whenever Kit was led in or out of the stall next her, while Kit always huddled up close to her manger whenever Griz was led past her heels. Once or twice Griz slipped her halter in the stall, and Hiram said there was a place on Kit that looked as if ...
— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge

... nigh?" The plainsmen cry, As they meet and pass in the desert grass. With finger tip Across the lip I ask the sombre Navajo. The brown man smiles and answers "Sho!"[1] With fingers high, he signs the miles To the desert spring, And so we pass in the dry dead grass, Brothers in ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland

... was by nature of a kindly sociable disposition, felt rather put out by this reception, especially when the invitation was pressed on him with much cordiality by Kenneth, as well as by Ian. Even the scorn on Le Rue's lip began to melt away like the snow! But the fur-trader felt that the interests of his employers were at stake; besides, had he not said to others, had he not vowed to himself, that he would not give way an inch—no, not so much as a hair's-breadth—to these long-legged interlopers, who, now that ...
— Wrecked but not Ruined • R.M. Ballantyne

... Rose bit her lip. She turned red, she turned pale. If only Lotty would keep quiet, she thought. It was all very well to have suddenly become a saint and want to love everybody, but need she be so tactless? Rose felt that all her poor sore places were being danced ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim


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