LIP (a word

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• COMMON

common in various forms, to

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• LANGUAGES

languages, cf Ger.

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• LIPPE

Lippe,

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• DAN

Dan. laebe;

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• LAT

Lat. labium is cognate)  , one of the two fleshy protuberant edges of the mouth in man and other animals, hence transferred to such objects as resemble a lip, the edge of a circular or other opening, as of a shell, or of a wound, or of any fissure in anatomy and zoology; in this last usage the Latin labium is more usually employed . It is also used of any projecting edge, as in coal-mining, &c . Many figurative uses are derived from the connexion with the mouth as the organ of speech . In architecture " lip moulding " is a term given to a moulding employed in the Perpendicular period, from its resemblance to an overhanging lip . It is often found in base moultings, and is not confined to England, there being similar examples in France and Italy .