lip
noun
either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Have you seen the primal dew ere the sun has lipped the pearl?
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield