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Labial   Listen
noun
Labial  n.  
1.
(Phonetics) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.
2.
(Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.
3.
(Zool.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.


adjective
Labial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
2.
(Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
3.
(Phonetics)
(a)
Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.
(b)
Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German.
4.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.





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"Labial" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pimply-faced, sallow youths standing at the corner of Halsted and Sixty-third, spitting languidly and handling their limp cigarettes with an amazing labial dexterity. Their conversation was low-voiced, sinister, and terse, and their eyes narrowed as they watched the overdressed, scarlet-lipped girls go by. A great fear ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... of a saint whose cheeks and robes were resplendent with gaudy colors. This must have been St. Nicholas or some other popular personage belonging to the holy phalanx. His mouth was very nearly obliterated by the labial caresses of the worshipers who came there to bestow upon him their devotions. A stone step, raised about a foot from the flagged pavement, was nearly worn through by the knees of the penitents, who were ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne
... vilest kind of evil. Poosh or Posh I have already confessed to be untranslatable literally. It is an expression of contempt not unmixed with pity. This radical seems to have originated from inherent sympathy between the labial effort and the sentiment that impelled it, Poo being an utterance in which the breath is exploded from the lips with more or less vehemence. On the other hand, Z, when an initial, is with them a sound in which the breath is sucked inward, and thus Zu, pronounced Zoo (which in their ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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