sip /ˈsɪp/
啜飲(vi.)啜飲(vt.)啜
Sip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.]
1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. “Every herb that sips the dew.”
2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]
They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. --Dryden.
Sip, v. i. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
[She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace;
Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. --Dryden.
Sip, n.
1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
One sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams. --Milton.
A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. --De Quincey.
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sip
n : a small drink [syn: nip]
v : drink in sips; "She was sipping her tea"
[also: sipping, sipped]