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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.





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"Labial" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the men, are even more ugly. They are short and thick-set; their feet turn inwards, and their incredibly filthy habits make them repulsive. The coquetry which is innate in the female mind, induces them to add to their natural charms by the use of a labial ornament, as ugly as it is inconvenient, of which we have already spoken in our account of Captain Cook's ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne
... 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, ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... two was not marked by the effusion vocal, gymnastical, osculatory and catechetical that distinguishes the greetings of their unprofessional sisters in society. There was a brief clinch, two simultaneous labial dabs and they stood on the same footing of the old days. Very much like the short salutations of soldiers or of travellers in foreign wilds are the welcomes between the strollers at the corners of their ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... by a slight central groove. Occipital shields large, triangular, and produced, with a small central shield behind them; a series of four large temporal shields; chin shields in two pairs; eyes very small, over the fourth and fifth labials; one ante-and two post-oculars; the second upper labial shield elongated.] ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


Words linked to "Labial" :   consonant, labial pipe, superior labial vein, labial vein, superior labial artery, labial artery, labial stop, bilabial, inferior labial artery, posterior labial veins, inferior labial vein, lip, labial consonant, anterior labial veins, labium


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