单词 | to the lips |
释义 | > as lemmas(immersed, steeped) to the lips a. Either of the two fleshy structures which in man and other animals form the edges of the mouth. Distinguished as upper and lower, also as †over (obsolete) and under, colloquial or dialect top and bottom lip. Phrase (immersed, steeped) to the lips. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > depth [phrase] > in something to specific depth up to the shoes1518 over head and ears?1521 head and ears1576 mid-rib deep1697 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 up to one's (also the) armpits1869 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly all outc1300 out and outc1300 at all devicec1385 to devicec1385 right out?1543 up to the chin1546 up to the eyes1607 upsy Friese1609 up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627 all hollow1762 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 all ends up1850 fair and square1870 right spang1884 to the wide1895 a (also one) hundred per cent1911 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 157/22 Labium, ufeweard lippa. Labrum, niðera lippe. Rostrum, foreweard feng þære lippena togædere. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 100 Wið lippe sar. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14652 Of cnihten he carf þe lippes. 13.. K. Alis. 6428 Heo no hath nose, no mouth, no toth, no lippe. c1375 XI Pains of Hell 81 in Old Eng. Misc. 213 Þo þat stod vp to þe leppis Be þe seruys of god þai set noȝt by. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 52 Poysoun on a pole þei put vp to his lippes. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxii. 100 Men þat hase þe ouer lippe so grete þat, when þai slepe in þe sonne, þai couer all þe visage with þat lippe. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 1234 His lyppys round, his noys was squar and tret. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 234 For lachtter nain mycht hald thair lippis. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 49 When she drinkes, against her lips I bob. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 52 Had he..Steep'd me in pouerty, to the very lips . View more context for this quotation 1724 R. Wodrow Life J. Wodrow (1828) 166 I observed his lips quivering. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. x. 40 A small cancerous Tumour at the Corner of his under Lip. a1822 P. B. Shelley Fragm. Unfinished Drama in Posthumous Poems (1824) 101 Some said he was..steeped in bitter infamy to the lips. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes (1859) I. 449 [The Loach] ..with four barbels or cirri..on the upper lip in the front. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xvi. 51 To the lips was he in luxury immersed. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiv. 38 That little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip. < as lemmas |
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