dip

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dipped r Dipt (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Dipping. ] [ OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d&unr_;pan to baptize, OS. d&unr_;pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. döpa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl&unr_; hollow, and to E. dive. Cf. Deep, Dive. ] 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. [ 1913 Webster ]

The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Wat'ry fowl ] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A cold shuddering dew
Dips me all o'er. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Live on the use and never dip thy lands. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I dipt into the future. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into. “Dipped into a multitude of books.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To dip snuff. [ Southern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + paschal. ] Including two passovers. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + petalous. ] (Bot.) Having two petals; two-petaled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + phenyl. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; leather (hence taken in the sense of membrane): cf. &unr_; to make soft, L. depsere to knead. ] (Med.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

{ } a. Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic. [ 1913 Webster ]