lip, lippe

[A. S. lippa, lippe; cogn. with Dut. lip; Dan. läbe; Sw. läpp: Ger. lippe, lefze; O. H. Ger. lefs, leffur; Lat. labrum, labium: Ir. lab; Gael. liob; Pers. lab.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. 1. "The honey-suckles would he often strip, And lay their sweetne e on her sweeter lip ." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals , bk. ii., § 4. 2. The border or edge of anything; as, the lip of a ve el, a projecting flange. 3. The mouth, as distinguished from the heart. "Hypocrisy, formality in prayer, And the dull service of the lip were there." Cowper: Expostulation , 44. 4. Speech, language. II. Technically: 1 Anat . (pl.): Two fleshy folds formed externally by common integument, and internally by mucous membrane, having between them the muscles of the lips, some fat, and the labial glands. They are attached to the upper and lower jaw, and connected to the gum in the mesial line by a fold of mucous membrane, the upper and larger being called the frænum labii superior is , the other the frænum labii IMG:content-0612.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Zool .: The portions of a univalve shell on the two sides of the aperture. The right side is formed by the outer lip ( labrum ), and the left one by the li-on-ěl, s . [English lion ; dim in. suff. -el.] A inner or columellar lip ( labium ), or by the body small or young lion. whorl. IMG:content-0613.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0615.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0616.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Entom.: A family of Moths, group Bombycina. Antenne longer than the thorax, pectinated in the male; abdomen in the female often very thick; larva and pupa hairy. li-par-1-6-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. lipari (a) (q. v.); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] Bot.: A sub-tribe of Papilionaceous flowers, tribe Lotem. lip-ar-Is, s . [Probably from liparos =unctu- ous.] 1. Bot . The typical genus of the family Lipari- de (q. v.). The sepals and petals are spreading, with linear segments, the lip superior or inferior, the column elongated, the pollen ma es four, waxy, with evanescent glands. Known species thirty-three. The genus is named with allusion, Loudon thinks, to the soft surface of the leaves in some species. 2. Entom.: The typical genus of the family Li- paride (q. v.). Liparis dispar is the Gipsy-moth. 3. Ichthy.: A genus of Discoboli. Liparis vul- garis is the Unctuous Lumpsucker, or Sea-snail. lip-ar-ite, s. [Gr. liparos =shining.] Chem.: C5H8O4(?). Supposed at one time to be a distinct acid of the oxalic series, but now believed to be an impure succinic acid obtained by the action of nitric acid upon oleic or stearic acids. lip-le , a . [Eng. lip ; -le .] Having no lips. lip-lět, s. [English lip ; dim in. suff. -let .] A Pathol.: A fatty tumor, benign in its nature, and economy. which, when once extirpated, never returns. li-pô-thym-I-a, s. [LEIPΟΤΗΥΜΙΑ.] li-pô-thym'-Ic, li-poth-ym-oŭs, adj . [LEIPO- THYMIC.] Swooning, fainting. built of stones without mortar, but which has the joints afterward filled with mortar, and the whole plastered over with rough-cast or harling. lip'-pen, v . i. [Cf. Goth. laubjan to trust; Ger. glauben.] To depend on, to trust to, to place conf i- dence in, to rely upon. "In the forenoon, although a strong westerly breeze raised a troublesome lipper on the water, he sculled down against the flood over the championship course."-London Daily Telegraph. lip'-pi-a, subst . [Named after August us Lippi, a French physician and traveler in Aby in i a.] Bot.: A genus of Verbenaceæ, tribe Ver be new. citrata is aromatic like sage or thyme. Ip'-piě, lip-pỹ, subst . [A. S. leap a bucket.] [LEAP,s.] The fourth part of a peck. ( Scotch .) 11-que-fied, pa . par . or a . [LIQUEFY.] 11-que-fi-er, s. [Eng. liquefy; -er.] One who IMG:content-0617.png:[ocr errors] O'erwhelm the fields, by Nature left unble ed." Glover: A then aid, i. IMG:content-0618.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Wet. "Ye now with liquid arms embrace the wandering shore." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 6. 3. Flowing smoothly and easily; soft; free from harshne or roughne . " Liquid , low, silvery, streamed the tones beneath the enchanted bow."- Lytton : Zanoni , bk. i., ch. ii. 4. Di olved, so as not to be obtainable by law. +II. Gram.: Smooth, easy; pronounced easily, and with a slight contact of the organs of articula tion; as, a liquid letter. B. As substantive: 1. Ord. Lang.: A substance whose parts are capable of moving freely among themselves on the least pre ure, and which, therefore, retains no fixed form; a substance in a state of liquidity; a fluid not aeriform. [FLUID.] "Be it thy choice, when summer heats annoy, To sit beneath her leafy canopy, Quaffing rich liquids ." Philips . Volatile liquids are those capable of rising in vapor; fixed liquids cannot do this, unle chemically decomposed. 2. Gram .: A letter or sound pronounced with a slight contact of the organs of articulation, as 1, m, n, r.