1. Having or furnished with a lip or lips; having lips of a specified kind. Often in parasynthetic comb., as blubber-, red-, thick-lipped.
1604. Shaks., 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. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 72. Delicate little nostrils, mouths not too heavily lipped.
1902. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 12 April, 879/1. 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.
