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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1460-1697
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Lip, n. Also: lip(p)e, lyp(p, leip. [ME. lip, lyppe, lippe, OE. lippa.]
1. The lip of a person or animal.Commonly with reference to the use of the lips for eating and drinking, speaking, kissing, etc., in special phrases, and in proverbs (for which see also Latuce n. b). To lick one's lip(s), see Lik v.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxv. 147.
Na ȝet thi lyppis suld nocht be Opnyt to pray the Trinite c1460 Thewis Wysmen 85.
His lyppis honorys sciens ay c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 1928.
His lyppys round, his noys was squar and tret a1568 Gyre-carling 6.
For luve of hir lawchand lippis c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 263.
O morall Gower [etc.] … Your sugurit lippis and tongis aureate [etc.] c1500-c1512 Id. liii. 39 (M).
For lachtter nain mycht hald thair lippis c1500-c1512 Id. liv. 5, 10, etc.
My ladye with the mekle lippis 1507–8 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 102.
To the draucht trumpet that hed ane sair lip 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 252.
I hald my tung for schame, bytand my lyp 1513 Ib. xii. Prol. 124.
The roys knoppis … Gan … kyth thar vermel lippis red c1515 Asloan MS I. 169/25.
And sum men has thair nether lipe samekle that it coweris thair face fra the son a1568 Jok & Jynny 55.
Twa lusty lippis to lik ane laidill 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 88.
Our lippis may liec1610 Jok Uplandis Newis 7 a.
Fyrie puritane and all the rest ... bait on ther lipe and had no ansser to mak(b) 1697 Old Lore Misc. IX. i. 48.
A black mear with a whyt leip(2) transf. a1585 Polwart Flyt. 809 (T).
Keillie lippis, kis my hippis 1606 Rollock 1 Thess. 343 (J).
Sweete sleeked lippes(3) proverbs a1599 Rollock Wks. I. 393.
Gif thou continue sa quhill thy lyfe be in thy lip, as we speik, quhill the last gasp a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 613.
Gude kaill, fair teale, fair fall the lips that taled the teale a1628 Ib. No. 1170.
Manie things fallis out betwene the cap and the over lip1653 Binning Wks. 394.
2. transf. a. The lip or rim of a vessel or the like. Also plur. (in sing. sense). b. The edge or brim of a hat. Chiefly plur. (sometimes in sing. sense).a. (1) plur. 1553 Carte Northberwic 68.
Ane cowp of masar tre … circulit about the lippis vytht siluer 1618 Acts IV. 586/2.
The ring-straik of the said firlot [to have] … fyve impressions of the letter L. vpon the lippes thereof(2) sing. 1554–5 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LXXII. 227.
That ilk mesour haif ane tapoun an inche beneith the lip1573–4 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 11. 1578 Edinburgh Testaments VI. 232.
Ane blak cop with siluer about the lip 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 381. 1596 Dysart Rec. 45.
Be the gift of the lip of the salt pan earth and stane of the tenement 1606 Edinburgh Testaments XLI. 114 b; etc.b. (1) plur. 1576 Criminal Trials I. ii. 51.
Ane blak bonet … with silkin laissis drawin throw the lippis thairof 1578 Edinburgh Testaments VI. 84.
xj dosane of pasmentis to lippis of hattis 1583 Ib. XIII. 107; 1586 Ib. XV. 64 b. 1601 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 141 b.
To browder the hat about the lippis tua hankis … siluir … and gold 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 353.
Mr. Alexander Montgomerie … shott him throw the lippes of his bonnett 1685 Sinclair Satan's Invisible World 88.
The gentleman had lately gotten a hat in the fashion with broad lipps(2) sing. 1586 Edinburgh Testaments XVI. 147.
Half ane dissone of hattis with the border about the lyp
