a. [f. LIP sb. + -LESS.] Having no lips.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxii. 100. Þai hafe a platte mouth, lippless.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, Descr. India (1864), 85. Drawing away the cover of their lips, as if they were liplesse.
1793. Holcroft, trans. Lavater’s Physiog., x. 59. A lipless mouth … denotes coldness.
1798–1812. Joanna Baillie, Orra, V. ii. Wks. (1851), 259. And lipless jaws that move and clatter round us In mockery of speech.
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 886/2. The lipless mouth of the snake.
1862. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. xvi. A … flat broad face, with high ears, wide lipless mouth [etc.].
