Definition of Lip

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Definition of Lip

Lip

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.

An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

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.

One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

To utter; to speak.

To clip; to trim.

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Lip Quotations

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
Tori Amos

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Janeane Garofalo

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
Sting

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
Vin Diesel

Lip Translations

lip in Dutch is lip
lip in Finnish is huuli
lip in German is Lippe
lip in Italian is labbra
lip in Latin is labrum
lip in Norwegian is leppe
lip in Spanish is labio

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