Part 3137

<blockquote>The priest shall <b>dip</b> his finger in the blood. <i>Lev. iv. 6.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>[Wat'ry fowl] now <b>dip</b> their pinions in the briny deep. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>While the prime swallow <b>dips</b> his wing. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.</def>

<i>Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>A cold shuddering dew <b>Dips</b> me all o'er. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.</def>

<blockquote>He was . . . <b>dipt</b> in the rebellion of the Commons. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with <i>out</i>; <as>as, to <ex>dip</ex> water from a boiler; to <ex>dip</ex> out water.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Live on the use and never <b>dip</b> thy lands. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Dipped candle</col>, <cd>a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow.</cd> -- <col>To dip snuff</col>, <cd>to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth.</cd> <mark>[Southern U. S.]</mark> -- <col>To dip the colors</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dip</h1> <Xpage=415>

<hw>Dip</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.</def>

<blockquote>The sun's rim <b>dips</b>; the stars rush out. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.</def>

<blockquote>Whoever <b>dips</b> too deep will find death in the pot. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by <i>in</i> or <i>into</i>.</def>

<blockquote>When I <b>dipt</b> into the future. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by <i>in</i> or <i>into</i>.</def> "<i>Dipped</i> into a multitude of books."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; <as>as, strata of rock <ex>dip</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To dip snuff.</def> <mark>[Southern U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Dip</h1> <Xpage=415>

<hw>Dip</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.</def> "The <i>dip</i> of oars in unison."