lip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: lips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lipt
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: lipt
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
Senses:
gloss: To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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;
Once […] at dawn, I heard a bull-moose lipping tree-buds, and lay still in my blanket while the huge beast wandered past, crack! crash! and slop! slop!through the creek […]
[…] in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.
gloss: To touch lightly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars.
gloss: To wash against a surface, lap.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 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;
The mist that lipped against the wall behind him hung overhead like a ceiling, hiding any stars.
gloss: To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
The sun lipped over the mountain by now, shone on the corrugated-iron roofs of the five sanitary units, shone on the gray tents and on the swept ground of the streets between the tents.
Above the spring the little statue of the god Myrddin, he of the winged spaces of the air, stared from between the ferns. Beneath his cracked wooden feet the water bubbled and dripped into the stone basin, lipping over into the grass below.
gloss: To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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.
The woman had slipped to the very edge of the rock—the edge that lipped the fury of the Pit. She was half over. And she was slipping—slipping....
gloss: To utter verbally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name / Most fondly lipp’d […]
gloss: To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “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 […]
gloss: To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
pos: verb
examples: “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.
gloss: To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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