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Word Meanings - LIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. -- Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. -- Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy.

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One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. -- Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. -- Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. Bale. -- Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. -- Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. -- Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. -- Lip work. Talk. Kissing. B. Jonson. -- Lip make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip , to show contempt by protruding the lip. (more info) 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. Jeb xv. 6. 2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel. 3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

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  • MARGINALIA
    Marginal notes.
  • MARGINALLY
    In the margin of a book.
  • MARGINAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
  • MARGINATED
    See A
  • LOOPHOLE
    A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy. 2. A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.
  • MARGINED
    Bordered with a distinct line of color. (more info) 1. Having a margin. Hawthorne.
  • MARGIN
    The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article. 4. Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty. (more info) 1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
  • BRINK
    The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy
  • MARGINATE
    Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.
  • LOOPHOLED
    Provided with loopholes.
  • MARGINELLA
    A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.
  • EXTREMITY
    One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. 3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." Ray. 4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering;
  • MARGINICIDAL
    Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.
  • BOUNDARY
    That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil
  • LATITUDE
    Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. (more info) 1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H.
  • INTRAMARGINAL
    Situated within the margin. Loudon.
  • IMMARGINATE
    Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.
  • BIMARGINATE
    Having a double margin, as certain shells.
  • EMARGINATE
    To take away the margin of.
  • EMARGINATELY
    In an emarginate manner.
  • EMARGINATE; EMARGINATED
    Notched at the summit. (more info) 1. Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
  • COLATITUDE
    The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
  • ADMARGINATE
    To write in the margin. Coleridge.

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