Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. -- Lip comfort, comfort that is given
with words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. --
Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. Bale. -- Lip reading,
the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the
motion of his lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve,
a salve for sore lips. -- Lip service, expression by the lips of
obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such
sentiments. -- Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported
by experience. -- Lip work. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] B.
Jonson. -- To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or
contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by
protruding the lip.
Lip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lipped (lpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lipping (-png).]
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.