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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS dyppan akin to Dan. dyppe Sw doppa, and to AS d?pan to baptize, OS d?pian, D. doopen G. taufen, Sw d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E. dive. Cf {Deep}, {Dive}.] 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev. iv 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. --Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson. 2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. 3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic] A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton. 4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. --Dryden. 5. To take out by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part -- often with out as to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water. 6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.] Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden. {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place -- a form of naval salute. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dipping \Dip"ping\, n. 1. The act or process of immersing. 2. The act of inclining downward. 3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like 4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc 5. The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.] {Dipping needle}, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.
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