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Definition of Lip labor

Lip labor
Lip Lip (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l["a]pp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.] 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. --Job xv. 6. 2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel. 3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. 4. (Bot.) (a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous. 5. (Zo["o]l.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only. Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale. Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. --Carpenter. Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. Lip work. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson. To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. --Shak. To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.

Meaning of Lip labor from wikipedia

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- "'Read my lips': Labor leader sheds iconic mustache after 47 years". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2 April 2020. Wootliff, Raoul. "Labor's Peretz and...
- amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip; some also painted their fingernails, faces...
- A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form...
- Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Lipes, Joshua (12 November 2019). "Expert Estimates China Has More Than 1,000...
- of Ron and Lip. Amanda helps Lip care for Liam in his college room when Fiona is jailed, and she becomes attracted to Lip. She seduces Lip and reveals...
- The labia minora (Latin for 'smaller lips', sg.: labium minus), also known as the inner labia, inner lips, or nymphae, are two flaps of skin that are part...
- Retrieved 6 April 2015. Peretz returns to Labor Party The Jerusalem Post, 5 September 2015 "'Read my lips': Labor leader sheds iconic mustache after 47 years"...
- Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...