2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sip \Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sipped}; p. pr & vb n.
{Sipping}.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD sippen, and AS s?pan to
sip, suck up drink. See {Sup}, v. t.]
1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to
take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid;
as to sip tea. ``Every herb that sips the dew.''
--Milton.
2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up as a bee sips nectar
from the flowers.
3. To taste the liquor of to drink out of [Poetic]
They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
--Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sipping
n : drinking small amounts slowly [syn: {tasting}]
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