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Lip :: Lip (n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

Prior :: Prior (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage..

Rounding :: Rounding (n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11..

Backsliding :: Backsliding (a.) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.

Filipendulous :: Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets..

Labial :: Labial (a.) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w..

Talipes :: Talipes (n.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree..

Whitewood :: Whitewood (n.) The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc..

Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper..

Ellipticity :: Ellipticity (n.) Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is /..

Klipspringer :: Klipspringer (n.) A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi..

Slip :: Slip (n.) To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Arc :: Arc (n.) A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse..

Eclipse :: Eclipse (v. i.) To suffer an eclipse.

Flap :: Flap (v.) A disease in the lips of horses.

Barbastel :: Barbastel (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips..

Few :: Few (superl.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people..

Clipping :: Clipping (n.) That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings..

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