DIP

vi to dip snuff.

2. dip ·noun a dipped candle.

3. dip ·vt to plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

4. dip ·vt to immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.

5. dip ·vt to engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

6. dip ·noun the action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

7. dip ·vt to wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

8. dip ·noun a liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.

9. dip ·noun inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

10. dip ·vi to incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

11. dip ·vi to immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

12. dip ·vi to pierce; to penetrate;

— followed by in or into.

13. dip ·vt to plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

14. dip ·vi to enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly;

— followed by in or into.

15. dip ·vi to perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. ·etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.

xvi. dip ·add. ·noun a sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.

xvii. dip ·vt 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.

xviii. dip ·add. ·noun 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).

xix. dip ·add. ·noun 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.