DIP

Definitions for the word, dip

(n.) A dipped candle.

(n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.

(n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

(v. i.) To dip snuff.

(v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.

(v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

(v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

(v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.

(v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.

(v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

(v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.

(v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

(v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

(v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

(v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.