Definition of Harelips

1. harelip [n] - See also: harelip

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harelips

hare wallaby
harebell
harebells
harebrained
hared
hareem
hareems
harefoot
harehound
harehounds
hareld
harelds
harelike
harelipped
harelips (current term)
harem
haremlik
haremlike
harems
hares
harewood
harewoods
harfang
hari-kari
hariana
harianas
haricot
haricot bean

Literary usage of Harelips

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"That deformities are in many cases hereditary may be seen in the instances of additional fingers and toes, and of harelips. It seems uncertain whether the ..."

2. Practical orthodontia by Martin Dewey (1919)
""We may find a few eases where the parents ¡uid some of the children in the same family have harelips, but after that there might be generations and ..."

3. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"... fingers and toes, and of harelips. It seems uncertain whether the male or female ... of three with harelips, whose father alone is simi larly deformed; ..."

4. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"D. are, however, in many cases, hereditär}', as may be seen in the instances of additional fingers and toes, and of harelips. It seems uncertain whether the ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples in this kind, as moles, warts, scars, harelips, monsters, ..."

6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"... scullery-maid and marrying her, and having nineteen children with harelips aud no roofs to their mouths Г But Frank extended his animosities DO further. ..."

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