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labial, a. and n.|ˈleɪbɪəl|
[ad. med.L. labiāl-is, f. labi-um lip. Cf. F. labial (1690 in Furetière).]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the lips.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xi. 107 Lip-Gallantry, or certain labial Fashions invented by diverse Nations. 1837Marryat Dog-Fiend xix, The olfactory examination was favourable, so he put his mouth to it—the labial essay still more so. 1848Clough Amours de Voy. ii. 157 The labial muscles that swelled with Vehement evolution of yesterday Marseillaises. 1867J. Ingelow Lily & Lute ii. 108 More than I can make you view, With my paintings labial. 1867A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iii. §3. 161 The volume of the mouth is divided into two bent tubes of which the first may be termed the lingual passage as its front extremity is formed by the tongue, and the second, the labial passage.
b. spec. in Anat., Zool., etc. Pertaining to a lip, lip-like part, or labium; having the character or functions of a lip.
1656Blount Glossogr. s.v. Vein, Labial veins, the lip veines, whereof there are two on each inner side, both of the upper and under lip. 1722Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2) 227 Labial Glands. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 356 Palpi Labiales (the Labial Feelers). 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 211 The lips and labial tentacles of the ordinary bivalves. 1879T. Bryant Pract. Surg. II. 230 Labial cysts are very common, and are usually met with on the inner side of the labia. 1881Mivart Cat 27 The membrane lining the mouth abounds in small glands, those within the cheeks and lips being termed buccal and labial respectively.
c. labial pipe: an organ-pipe furnished with lips, a flue-pipe.
1852Seidel Organ 21 An organ..which contained the following labial or languet registers. 1863Tyndall Heat viii. App. 280 The flame is also affected by various D's of an adjustable labial pipe. 1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ iv. (1878) 23 Flue-pipes are also called Labial, or lip-pipes.
2. Phonetics. The distinctive epithet of those sounds which require complete or partial closure of the lips for their formation, as the consonants p, b, m, f, v, w, and the ‘rounded’ vowels.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 87 The Hebrewes name their letters, some gutturall..; others dentall..; & so they call others, labiall, that is letters of the lips. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue i. vii, I beginning to lay my grundes of labial, dental, and guttural soundes and symboles. Ibid. A labial letter can not symboliz a guttural syllab. 1668Wilkins Real Char. iii. xiv. 379 The Vowels, as they are distinguished into Labial; being framed by an emission of the Breath through the Lips [etc.]. 1865Tylor Hist. Man. iv. 73 Words containing labial and dental letters.
B. n.
1. A labial sound.
1668Wilkins Real Char. iii. xiv. 380 The labials are represented by two curve Figures for the Lips. a1709W. Baxter Let. in Gloss. Antiq. Rom. (1731) 409 The third Sort are Labials formed by the Lips alone. 1849–50Thackeray Pendennis xlvi, You have but the same four letters to describe the salute which..you bestow on the sacred cheek of your mistress—but the same four letters and not one of them a labial. 1864Max Müller Sci. Lang. Ser. ii. iv. 162 It is a fact..that the Mohawks..have no p, b, m, f, v, w—no labials of any kind.
2. A labial part or organ, e.g. one of the plates or scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile, one of the labial palpi of insects.
1885W. K. Parker Mammalian Desc. ii. 46 The finished labials (lip-cartilages) of the types just referred to. |
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