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sipping

 

  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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