Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIP
DIP, v.i.
- To sink; to immerse in a liquid. – L'Estrange.
- To enter; to pierce. – Granville.
- To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.
- To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history. – Pope.
- To choose by chance; to thrust and take. – Dryden.
- To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips. [See Dipping.]
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