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lippire

lippire [CL] , to be inflamed or watery in the eye; b (fig.). c (pr. ppl. as sb.) person with inflamed or watery eye. ex nativa caecitate ~ientibus oculis Gosc. Aug. Min. 749C; facta ejus etiam meracius ~ienti apparent oculo W. Malm. GR I 31; qui, oculos si habeat ~ientes, eos malit effodere quam curare J. Sal. Pol. 530b; oculusque lucerne / pervigil et lippit et lippum torquet ocellum Hanv. III 101; ~ientes oculi Fishacre Sent. Prol. 81 (v. fulgor b); fumus et pulvis ‥ ~ientibus oculis ophthalmiam superducunt R. Bury Phil. IV 63; ~o, A. to watery with ye WW.  b ~ienti oculo cordis contemplari anhelans Eadmer Excell. B. M. 557C; languet studium, sollertia lippit Hanv. VI 31; de lippientibus mentis oculis viatoris R. Marston QD 266.  c de ~iente Canon. G. Sempr. f. 154v.

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