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Lipped

Lip \Lip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lipped (l[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lipping (-p[i^]ng).]

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

    The bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass.
    --Praed.

    A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing.
    --Shak.

  2. To utter; to speak. [R.]
    --Keats.

Lipped

Lipped \Lipped\ (l[i^]pt), a.

  1. Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

  2. (Bot.) Labiate.

Wiktionary
lipped

a. 1 having a raised lip 2 (qualifier: in combination) having some specific type of lip

WordNet
lip
  1. n. fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth

  2. an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, mouth]

  3. the top edge of a vessel [syn: brim, rim]

  4. [also: lipping, lipped]

lipped

adj. having a lip or lips; "a lipped bowl"; "a virgin purest lipped"- John Keats [ant: lipless]

lipped

See lip

Usage examples of "lipped".

The Singer from the Sea The crest of the water curled above them in a glassy mountain, foam edged, growing higher and more curled, then higher yet, breaking at last as the wave lipped over the walls, gulping the city into the maw of the sea.

He lipped at the lobe of her ear and nibbled on the sensitive skin of her throat and neck.

Not only was Pedro white lipped and furious when he found that the man with Wiki had been given the position already, but he refused to accept defeat.

But Rodion, tight lipped as he carried the woman out of the woodhouse, was feeling all the impotence and rage that only someone under the yoke of serfdom could feel.

Straight in his saddle despite the suffocating heat, Diegan stayed stiff lipped and obstinate.

The plant which stings has a round hairy stalk, and carries only a dull colourless bloom, whereas the others are labiate herbs with square stems, and conspicuous lipped flowers.

On the captain's left, as stiff as ever, were colonels Maistroff and Caruthers, burly veteran commanders both, thick fowled, tight lipped clones in different color uniforms.

While she fussed over him, the stallion lipped at her loose hair and nuzzled her neck, made whuffling noises at her cheeks, and sniffed hopefully for carrots in her hip pockets.

The edges of the dessert plates were lipped slightly, helping to keep the sweet pineapple juice from escaping as forks cut into the delicious confection.

A great shock of straw yellow hair tumbled about a broad, high forehead, a small, wrinkled, querulous face-the face of an aged child-a pair of watery blue eyes squinting aggressively through thick spectacles, and a thin lipped mouth as straight as the mark of a surgeon's knife, save for the drooping corners.