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ving a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.

Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." Keats.

Having two lips.

with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. Sentenced to have his ears clipped. Macaulay.

ipping the edges of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

oop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highland…

y the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped`, a.

Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton.

Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin.

nt (Zoöl.), the ant-lion. -- Lion dog (Zoöl.), a fancy dog with a flowing mane, usually clipped to resemble a lion's mane. -- Lion lizard (Zoöl.), the basilisk. -- Lion's share, all, or nearly all; the best or largest part; -- from Æsop's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain smaller beasts, and appropri…

e bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass. Praed. A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing. Shak.

To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. "Let him pass for a man." Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true…

his head. 2 Sam. xiv. 26. His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. Sir T. North.

A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.] Camden.

Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.

om the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.

stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.