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Harelip

Harelip \Hare"lip`\ (h[^a]r"l[i^]p`), n. A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped` (-l[i^]pt`), a.

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harelip

n. (context teratology English) A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare.

WordNet
harelip

n. a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip [syn: cleft lip, cheiloschisis]

Usage examples of "harelip".

In their bathrobes, with uncombed hair, all of them wrong sizes and shapes and colors, with goiters and harelips and missing limbs and extra limbs.

The man who admitted him was one of Varys's prettier finds, a Braavosi daggerman with a harelip and a lazy eye.

Thanakar had repaired his deviated septum, had stitched together his harelip.

Wrapped in a tattered cloak, his brow covered with tubercules, his nose gnawed by a tabes, his eyes of marble, one green and one black, a weasel’s gaze, brows sloping downwards, a harelip revealing wolfs teeth sharp and protruding, kinky hair, sandy skin, hands with stubby fingers and curving nails.

The Engineer and three skinny half-meter Watchmakers, and a slender creature with a harelip and long, delicate fingers and toes, had reshaped the hole in the cabin wall into an oval airlock.