dip
DIP, v.t. 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, v.i.
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.
dipping
DIPPING, ppr.
1. Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the temperature of water by dipping the finger int it; baptizing by immersion.
2. Engaging or taking a concern in.
3. Looking into here and there; examining in a cursory, slight or hasty manner.
4. Inclining downward, as the magnetic needle.
5. Breaking; inclining; as a vein of ore.
DIPPING, n.
1. The act of plunging or immersing.
2. The act of inclining towards the earth; inclination downwards; as the dipping of the needle.
3. The interruption of a vein of ore, or stratum of a fossil, in a mine; or a sloping downwards.