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lipless, a.|ˈlɪplɪs|
[f. lip n. + -less.]
Having no lips.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxii. 100 Þai hafe a platte mouth, lippless. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage, Descr. India (1864) 85 Drawing away the cover of their lips, as if they were liplesse. 1793Holcroft Lavater's Physiogn. x. 59 A lipless mouth..denotes coldness. 1798–1812J. Baillie Orra v. ii. Wks. (1851) 259 And lipless jaws that move and clatter round us In mockery of speech. 1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 886/2 The lipless mouth of the snake. 1862Geo. Eliot Romola i. xvi, A..flat broad face, with high ears, wide lipless mouth [etc.]. |