n. [ See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow. ]
v. i. To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]
To tip off,
v. t. [ Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently. ]
A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
To tip off,
To tip over,
To tip the wink,
To tip up,
v. t.
With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]
Tipped with jet,
Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Akin to D. & Dan. tip, LG. & Sw. tipp, G. zipfel, and probably to E. tap a plug, a pipe. ]
To the very tip of the nose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. [ 1913 Webster ]
In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. tipet, tepet, AS. tæppet, probably fr. L. tapete tapestry, hangings. Cf. Tape, Tapestry, Tapet. ]
Tippet grebe (Zool.),
Tippet grouse (Zool.),
To turn tippet,
n. (Mus.) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing. [ 1913 Webster ]