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lip(2) (iou)



lip verb. Infl. -pp-. E17.
[from the noun.]
I.
verb trans. Touch with the lips, apply the lips to; poet. kiss; touch lightly, (of water) lap. E17.
Shakespeare Anthony & Cleopatra A hand that kings Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing. Chambers's Journal Some little bay lipped by the Arctic current.
verb trans. Say, utter; esp. pronounce with the lips only, murmur softly. Also, (colloq.) sing. L18.
Keats Salt tears were coming when I heard my name Most fondly lipp'd. B. Hines Billy opened his book,..and began to lip the words.
verb trans. Insult, abuse, be impudent to (someone). dial. & colloq. L19.
verb trans. Take to the lips; taste, sip, nibble. M20.
B. Breytenbach Slowly we lipped and sipped our kummel.
II. verb trans. Edge or overlay the lip of (a vessel). Only in E17.
verb intrans. Rise to, cover, or flow over the lip or brim of a vessel; (of a vessel) have liquid flowing over its brim or edge. Chiefly Scot. E18.
R. L. Stevenson The gunwale was lipping astern. J. Masefield The water..left a trail, Lipped over on the yard's bricked paving.
verb trans. Notch on the lip or edge. E19.
verb trans. Fill in the interstices of (a wall). Scot. E19.
verb trans. Serve as a lip or margin to. Cf. LIPPED adjective. M19.
verb intrans. Chiefly Medicine. Of bone: grow out (abnormally) or project at an extremity or edge. L19.
verb trans. Golf. Drive the ball just to the lip or edge of (a hole); (of a ball) reach the edge of (a hole) but fail to drop in. L19.