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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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885 words match “LIP”

SLIPPERINESS n.
The quality of being slippery.
SLIPPERNESS n.
Slipperiness. [Obs.]
SLIPPERWORT n.
See Calceolaria.
SLIPPERY a. 7 definitions
Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
SLIPPINESS n.
Slipperiness. [R.] "The slippiness of the way." Sir W. Scott.
SLIPPY a.
Slippery.
SLIPSHOD a. 2 definitions
Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper.
SLIPSHOE n.
A slipper. Halliwell.
SLIPSKIN a.
Evasive. [Obs.] Milton.
SLIPSLOP n.
Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.
SLIPSTRING n.
One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
SLIPTHRIFT n.
A spendthrift. [Obs.]
SNOWSLIP n.
A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.
SOLIPED n.
ing a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate. [Written also solipede.] The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number. Sir T. Browne.
SOLIPEDOUS a.
Having single hoofs.
SOLIPSISM n. 2 definitions
Egotism. Krauth-Fleming.
SUBULIPALP n.
One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.
TALIPES n.
The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
TALIPOT n.
A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.…
THLIPSIS n.
Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.
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