lip

noun11

1. •
   a soft piece of skin along the top or the bottom of the opening of the mouth

   • […]thine owne lippes testifie against thee. — 1611
2. •
   The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.

   • The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass. — 2018
3. •
   The edge of a high spot of land.

   • They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river. — 1913
4. •
   One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
5. •
   (slang) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

   • Don’t give me any lip!
6. •
   (informal) Clipping of lipstick.

   • I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.
7. •
   A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

   • […]I twisted my thighs, squeezed, and compress’d the lips of that virgin-slit[…] — 1749
8. •
   (informal) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
9. •
   One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
10. •
    A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
11. •
    The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

verb9

1. •
   To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

   • […] a hand that Kings / Haue lipt, and trembled kissing. — 1606
2. •
   To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

   • “I shall find the ball to the left of a patch of sword grass near the hole,” he said. “My second will lip the hole, I know it as well as if I could see the whole thing.” — 1910
3. •
   To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

   • “Ah, I thought my memory didn’t deceive me!” he lipped silently. — 1886
4. •
   To wash against a surface, lap.

   • It was very soothing and restful up there on the saloon deck, with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water as it rippled against the sides of the steamer. — 1898
5. •
   (figurative) To touch lightly.

   • He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars. — 1971
6. •
   To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
7. •
   To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

   • Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea. — 1903
8. •
   To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

   • […] old Macrae, of Adrfeulan Farm near by, had caused rude steps to be cut in the funnel-like hollow rising sheer up from the sloping ledge that lipped the chasm and reached the summit of the scaur. — 1894
9. •
   To utter verbally.

   • Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name / Most fondly lipp’d […] — 1818

noun2

1. •
   Abbreviation of litigant in person.
2. •
   Abbreviation of large igneous province.