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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB |
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LIP (a word common in various forms, to Teutonic languages, cf Ger. Lippe, Dan. laebe; Lat. labium is cognate) , one of the two fleshy protuberant edges of the mouth in man and other animals, hence transferred to such objects as resemble a lip, the edge of a circular or other opening, as of a shell, or of a wound, or of any fissure in anatomy and zoology ; in this last usage the Latin labium is more usually employed. It is also used of any projecting edge, as in coal-mining
architecture " lip moulding " is a term
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