harelipn.
/ˈhɛːˈlɪp/ 1. Fissure of the upper lip, caused by the arrest of development in the upper lip or jaw; so called from the resemblance to the cleft lip of a hare.Now generally considered offensive.
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harelip1567
hare-shaw1597
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Giiv Wylliam Coper with the Harelyp.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. ii. 41 Neuer mole, hare-lippe, nor scarre. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. ii. 4 The Chirurgion..cicatriseth cloven lips, commonly called hare-lips.
1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 98. ⁋11 [He] had a remarkable hair-lip, which exposed to view a broken row of discoloured teeth.
1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. 81 In cases of double hare-lip, where the fissure is not confined to skin, the pre-maxillary bones on each side fail to unite with the rest of the upper jaw.
2. harelip sucker, a fish, Quassilabia lacera, of the Ohio river and its tributaries, remarkable for the conformation of the mouth.
Derivatives
hare-lipped adj. /-lɪpt/ now generally considered offensive having the upper lip cleft like the hare.
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hare-lipped1607
kidney-lipped1648
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 265 If the child proue not hair-lipt.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 277 I spoke..to a hair-lipped warrior among them.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 114 The hideous, hare-lipped uranoscopus..the singular position of whose eyes attracted early the attention of naturalists.
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