lipping

Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped or (obsolete) lipt)

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
   • […] a hand that Kings / Haue lipt, and trembled kiſſing.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
2. (figuratively, transitive) To touch lightly.
   • He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars.1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 405
3. (intransitive, transitive) 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, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 10, in The Tragedy of the Korosko, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 324
4. (intransitive) 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, Robert Barr, Over the Border, London: Isbister, Book 4, Chapter 7, p. 375
5. (transitive) 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, Fiona Macleod, chapter 4, in Pharais, Derby, page 88
6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
   • Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name / Most fondly lipp’d […]1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 48, lines 964–965

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