Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIP'PING, n.

1. The act of plunging or immersing.
2. The act of inclining toward the earth; inclination downward; as, the dipping of the needle.
3. The interruption of a vein of ore, or stratum of a fossil, in a mine; or a sloping downward.
4. The act of baptizing by the immersion of the whole body in water.