Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIP, v.i.

1. To sink; to immerse in a liquid. – L'Estrange.
2. To enter; to pierce. – Granville.
3. To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.
4. To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history. – Pope.
5. To choose by chance; to thrust and take. – Dryden.
6. To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips. [See Dipping.]