Lip-clap, subs. (old).—A kiss. Also Lip-favor.
1592. Greene, Philomela [Grosart (1881-6), xi. 150]. Lutesio. Kinde gaue the gentlewoman a kisse: for he thought she valued a lip favour more than a piece of gold.
1693. Poor Robin [quoted by Nares]. Now the spring coming on, young wenches will grow wanton, and rather than live under a mothers nose, and a granams tongue, will venture a lip-clap and a lap-clap to get them a husband, when a little while after the cuckow sings at their door.
Lipey, subs. (common).—A mode
of address: e.g. 'Whatcher, lipey!'
Lip-labour (or -work), subs. (common).—1.
Talk; jaw (q.v.). Also
flattery.
1575. Gascoigne, Steel glas [Haylitt (1869), Poems, ii. 205]. My priests haue learnt to pray vnto the Lord, and yet they trust not in their lyplabour.
1577-87. Holinshed, Chronicles, ed. I. Being but a little lip-labour.
1592. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse [Grosart (1883), ii. 135]. Words. . . that are the vsual lip-labour of euerie idle discourser.
1630. Taylor, Works [quoted by Nares]. In briefe, my fruitlesse and worthy lip-labour, mixt with a deale of ayrie and non-substantiall matter, I gave his lordship, and the like requitall I bestowed on the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Squibb, maior of Sarum.
1653. Brome, Novella, iii. 1. Meere noyse and lip-labour, with loss of time, I think with scorne upon such poore expressions.
2. (common).—Kissing.
1582. Stanyhurst, Virgil, etc., 'Of Tyndarus' (ed. Arber), p. 145. Syth my nose owtpeaking, good syr, your liplabor hindreth, Hardlye ye may kisse mee where no such gnomon appeareth.
Lip-salve (or -wash), subs. (common).—Flattery.
1594. Nashe, Unf. Traveller [Grosart (1885), v. 92]. What ist? what ist for a mayde fayre and freshe to spend a little lip salue on a hungrie louer.
1680. E. Fannant, Hist. Ed. II, 91. Spencer . . . finds here a female wit that . . . taught him not to trust a woman's lip-salve.
1891. Hermann, Scarlet Fortune, v1. Oily flattery . . . termed in Western phraseology, chin-music and lip-wash.
Liquid-fire, subs. (common).—Bad
whiskey. For synonyms see
Drinks and Old Man's Milk.
Liquor, subs. (common).—A drink.
1882. Punch, LXXX11. 193. 2. These nips and pegs and liquors at all hours of the day were unknown to us.
Verb. (common).—To drink; to treat: generally to liquor up. Also (old)—to liquor one's boots (q.v.).
1607. W. S., Puritan. Oh, the musicians Master Edward, call 'em in, and liquor them a little.
1682. Dryden, Absalom etc., ii. 461. Round as a globe, and liquored every chink.
1699. London Spy, p. 15. When we had liquored our throats.
1838. Neal, Charcoal Sketches, i. 36. Come, boys, let's liquor—what'll you have?
1847. Porter, Big Bear, p. 31. Jumping up, he asked all present to liquor before going to bed.
1850. Tensas, Odd Leaves, p. 175. Doe, les licker, it's a dry talk.
1852. Bristed, Upper Ten Thousand, p. 57. The very necessity of liquoring so often in our warm weather obliges us to weaken our liquor.
1853. Haliburton ('Sam Slick'), Wise Saws, p. 34. Come in here to the hotel, and let's liquor, for I am nation dry.
1870. E. Hinton, Plutarch's Morals, 'Apothegms' etc. i. 268. 'If the Athenians,' said he, 'deal severely with us, let them execute thee snivelling and gutfoundered; I'll die well liquored, and with my dinner in my belly.'
