The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lip \Lip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lipped (l[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lipping (-p[i^]ng).]
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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. To utter; to speak. [R.]
--Keats.
Wiktionary
n. (cx carpentry English) edging vb. (present participle of lip English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "lipping".
But she looked at him with understanding and nuzzled his arm, lipping at the material of his jacket in affectionate sympathy.
With perfect timing, she sidled up to him, lipping his jacket in a coquettish manner, shyly and gently rubbing her brow against his chest.
There was so much whispering and giggling throughout that it quite put him off his stride, and he had to put in extra measures of strumming more than once while he recalled the words, or read the Bard's exaggerated lipping of them across the crowded, torch-lit square.
But a moment later both of us were grinding forward, lipping the top of the hill and running down to the torrent.