Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TIP, v.t.

1. To form a point with something; to cover the tip, top, or end; as, to tip any thing with gold or silver. With truncheon tipp'd with iron head. Hudibras. Tipp'd with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.
2. [for tap.] To strike slightly, or with the end of any thing small; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.
3. To lower one end, or to throw upon the end; as, to tip a cart for discharging a load. [New England.] To tip the wink, to direct a wink, or to wink to another for notice. Pope.