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Sip

Sip (sip)
v. t.(s&ibreve]p)
Sip
[imp. *** p. p. Sipped (s&ibreve]pt); p. pr. *** vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen] akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s1913 webster dictionarypan to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, ]
  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.

Sip

Sip (sip)
v. i.
Sip
  1. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

    [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace;
    Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.     Dryden.

Sip

Sip (sip)
n.
Sip
  1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
  2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

    One sip of this
    Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
    Beyond the bliss of dreams.     Milton.

    A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.













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