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Dip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dipped or Dipt (░); p. pr. & vb. n. Dipping.]
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.
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.