DIP, pret. and pp. dipped or dipt. G.
1. To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in water or other liquid substance to put into a fluid and withdraw.
The priest shall dip his finger int he blood. Leviticus 4 .
Let him dip his foot in oil. Deuteronomy 33 .
One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.
2. To take with a ladle or other vessel by immersing it in a fluid, as to dip water from a boiler often with out, as to dip out water.
3. To engage to take concern used intransitively, but the passive participle is used.
He was a little dipt in the rebellion of the commons.
4. To engage as a pledge to mortgage. Little used.
5. To moisten to wet. Unusual.
6. To baptize by immersion.
DIP,
1. To sink to emerge in a liquid.
2. To enter to pierce.
3. To engage to take a concern as, to dip into the funds.
4. To enter slightly to look cursorily, or here and there as, to dip into a volume of history.
5. To choose by chance to thrust and take.
6. To incline downward as, the magnetic needle dips. See Dipping.
DIP, n. Inclination downward a sloping a direction below a horizontal line depression as the dip of the needle. The dip of a stratum, in geology, is its greatest inclination to the horizon, or that on a line perpendicular to its direction or course called also the pitch.
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