dip is a Verb
[1] To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. [Wat`ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.
[2] To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.
[3] To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic] A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o`er. Milton.
[4] To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. Dryden.
[5] 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.
[6] To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.] Live on the use and never dip thy lands. Dryden. Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. -- To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] -- To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.
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