ppl. a. [f. LIP sb. or v. + -ED.]
1. Having or furnished with a lip or lips; having lips of a specified kind. Often in parasynthetic comb., as blubber-, red-, thick-lipped.
1377 onwards [see BABBER, BLABBER, BLOBBER, BLUBBER].
1604. Shaks., Oth., IV. ii. 63. Thou young and Rose-lipd Cherubin.
1755. Johnson, Lipped, having lips.
1820. Keats, Lamia, I. 189. A virgin purest lipped.
1844. Willis, Lady Jane, I. 644. Lamps conceald in bells of alabaster, Lippd like a lily.
1851. Becks Florist, 133. Stalk inserted in a small, sometimes a lipped, hollow.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sci., I. 403/2. A lipped vessel should be used.
1897. Allbutts Syst. Med., II. 1058. The filaridæ are long filiform worms with a lipped, a papillated, or a simple mouth.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 72. Delicate little nostrils, mouths not too heavily lipped.
1902. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 12 April, 879. The synovial membrane was found rather inflamed, and the edges of the cartilages were lipped.
2. Bot. = LABIATE; also, having a labellum.
1836. Loudon, Encycl. Plants, Gloss., Lipped, having a distinct lip or labellum.
1847. W. E. Steele, Field Bot., Introd. 16 (Gloss.), Lipped = Bilabiate.
1854. S. Thomson, Wild Fl., III. (ed. 4), 251. Another lipped flower, is the hemp nettle.