lipped, ppl. a.
(lɪpt)
[f. lip n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Having or furnished with a lip or lips; having lips of a specified kind. Often in parasynthetic comb., as blubber-lipped, red-lipped, thick-lipped.
| 1377 onwards [see babber, blabber, blobber, blubber]. 1604 Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 63 Thou young and Rose-lip'd Cherubin. 1755 Johnson, Lipped, having lips. 1820 Keats Lamia i. 189 A virgin purest lipped. 1844 Willis Lady Jane i. 644 Lamps conceal'd in bells of alabaster, Lipp'd like a lily. 1851 Beck's Florist 133 Stalk..inserted in a small, sometimes a lipped, hollow. c 1865 J. Wylde in Circ. Sci. I. 403/2 A lipped vessel should..be used. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1058 The filaridæ are long filiform worms with a lipped, a papillated, or a simple mouth. 1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 72 Delicate little nostrils, mouths not too heavily lipped. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 879 The synovial membrane was found rather inflamed, and the edges of the cartilages were lipped. |
2. Bot. = labiate; also, having a labellum.
| 1836 Loudon Encycl. Plants Gloss., Lipped, having a distinct lip or labellum. 1847 W. E. Steele Field Bot. Introd. 16 (Gloss.), Lipped = Bilabiate. 1854 S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 251 Another lipped flower, is the..hemp nettle. |