Lippa
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lippa
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- lippa
- Add: [Weler is generally used where modern English would have lip, e. g. in Ps. 51, 15 (quoted at R. Ben. I. 69, 9) labia is rendered by weleras in R. Ben. 62, 10, and in all the versions of the Psalter.] I. either of the two fleshy structures which form the edges of the mouth: -- Hunigswéte reádum andþraciaþ lippan smǽrum mellea (tune) roseis herescunt labia labris, An. Ox. 3186. II. with special reference (1) to feeding :-- Smǽrum gífrum and mid grǽdigum lippum buccis ambronibus et labris lurconibus. An. Ox. 699. (2) to speech :-- Míne lippan þú geopena labia mea aperies, R. Ben. I. 69, 9. lippa