| Dip (dip) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Dip |
| [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[u |
To plunge or immerse;
especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid
and withdraw again.
To immerse for baptism; to baptize by
immersion.
To wet, as if by immersing; to
moisten.
To plunge or engage thoroughly in any
affair.
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.
To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
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To
immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
To perform the action of plunging some
receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft
substance and removing a part.
To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by
in or into.
To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage
one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; --
followed by in or into.
To incline downward from the plane of the
horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
To dip snuff.
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The
action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
Inclination downward; direction below a
horizontal line; slope; pitch.
A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at
table with a ladle or spoon.
A dipped candle.
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A
gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer,
resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his
chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening
his arms.
In the turpentine industry, the viscid
exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin
dip (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the
runnings of subsequent years).
A sudden drop
followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of
getting into an airhole.
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