Definition of Lippings

1. lipping [n] - See also: lipping

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lippings

lippen
lippened
lippening
lippens
lipper
lippered
lippering
lippers
lippie
lippier
lippies
lippiest
lippiness
lippinesses
lipping
lippings (current term)
lippitude
lippitudes
lippy
lipread
lipreader
lipreaders
lipreading
lipreadings
lipreads
lipscombite
lipservice
lipslide

Literary usage of Lippings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The quadrangle is e prison enclosure in which the prison - s aro allowed to walk, and where lippings used to be inflicted. ed and whipped In ..."

2. Reynard the Fox by John Masefield (1920)
"Stamped, and the gulping munch again Resumed its lippings at the grain. The road outside the inn was quiet Save for the poor, mad, restless pyat Hopping his ..."

3. A Manual for Health Officers by Joseph Scott MacNutt (1915)
"... or through misplaced emphasis (eg, 1 It is interesting to note, however, that in some fifty newspaper lippings relating to board of health work, ..."

4. The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts by Thomas Hardy (1904)
"Now his friend Tomline pens what he dictates And gleans the lippings of his last desires. ROSE and LADY HESTER turn. They see the Bishop bending over the ..."

5. The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1907)
"... or "lippings" from the cartilage covering the articular extremities of the bones, especially of those of the fingers and toes, may be observed but ..."

6. Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (1898)
"NATURE'S QUESTIONING And on them stirs, in lippings mere (As if once clear in call, But now scarce breathed at all)— " We wonder, ever wonder, ..."

7. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: With Notes on by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"Nor do they confine themselves to preputial i-lippings for utilitarian purposes. The Tonga of South-Africa, in his pursuit of beauty, proceeds to hack lumps ..."

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