Emily Dickinson Lexicon

lip (-s), n. [OE lippa.]

1. Voice; [metonymy] person singing; choir member.
2. Fleshy entrance of the mouth; [metonymy] person thirsting.
3. Blossom; bloom; petal; corolla; part of a plant; helmet and beard of a floral corol.
4. Mouth; [metonymy] body; self; person; individual human being.
5. Labial articulator; [fig.] capacity for human speech; speech sounds made with the mouth.
6. Beak; bill; nib; bird's mouth.
7. Talker; speaker; gossiper; newsmonger.
8. Opening on the lower front part of the head for kissing, drinking, eating, and so forth.
9. Edge; rim; border; margin of something other than the mouth.
10. Horizon; skyline.
11. Maw; yap; animal's mouth.
12. Poetry; creative writing.
13. Crater; fissure; geologic fault line; [fig.] mouth of Mother Nature.
14. Possession; availability; accessibility; reach; grasp; disposal.
15. Phrase. “Granite lip”: tombstone; grave marker; [kenning] cold corpse; dead body.