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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



... are got in by the activity of our agents, who go about among those who are in arrears and worry them with stories of horrible incendiaries until they are driven to sign the new policies. Thus you see that eloquence, the labial flux, is nine tenths of the ways and means of ...
— The Illustrious Gaudissart • Honore de Balzac

... Poo-naria, falsehood, the 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 ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle. threshold, door, porch; portal &c. (opening) 260; coast, shore. frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp. Adj. border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated[obs3], marginated[obs3]. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... and bestowed a labial salute. It is the only adequate description I can give of the performance. Then I went to the kitchen ...
— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick

... were cut transversely, every eighth of an inch, about three-quarters of the way across. Fig. 1 shows the size of tape and the manner of cutting. With an instrument (Fig. 2) he drew the foil in from the labial surface, using such portion of ...
— Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth • Henry L. Ambler


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