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  either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech. Usually, lips. these parts as organs of speech: I heard it from his own lips. a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object: the lip of a pitcher. a liplike part or structure, especially of […]

• Bite-one-s-nails

  Exhibit signs of anxiety, impatience, or nervousness, as in We’ll be biting our nails till the jury comes back. Biting one’s fingernails is a time-honored sign of emotional tension. The Roman satirist Horace described it about 35 b.c.: “As he wrought his verse he would often … gnaw his nails to the quick” (Satires, Book […]

• Bite-one-s-tongue

  either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech. Usually, lips. these parts as organs of speech: I heard it from his own lips. a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object: the lip of a pitcher. a liplike part or structure, especially of […]

• Bit-grinding

  bit-grinding

• Biteplate

  a removable appliance worn in the mouth to separate the jaws so that some of the teeth will gradually shift upward or downward.

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