[f. LIP v. + -ING1.] The action of LIP v.1 in various senses.

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1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Lipping, making notches on the edge of a cutlass or sword.

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1887.  Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Dec., 5/1. Soon the gentle lipping of the tide was replaced by the roar of white-crested waves.

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  b.  spec. in Pathology.

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1894.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., 2 June, 1188/1. The lipping of the articular ends of the bones being characteristic.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 106. The presence of bony thickening and lipping about the joints.

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1899.  E. Blake, Study of Hand (ed. 2), 28. Attacks of chondritis with fibrous degeneration, followed by bulging of the cartilage, known as ‘lipping,’ due to muscular traction, on the opposing articular surfaces.

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