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Date "HARE-LIP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Specialty Definition: HARE-LIP

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Literature1: "This is the foul flend Flibbertigibbet. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. He... squints the eye and makes the hare-lip." - Shakespeare: King Lear, iii. 4.
2: Hare-lip A cleft lip; so called from its resemblance to the upper lip of a hare. It was said to be the mischievous act of an elf or malicious fairy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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