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1 definition 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.
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