Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dippedor Dipt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dipping.]

[OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d?pan to baptize, OS. d?pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E. dive. Cf. Deep, Dive.]

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

The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev. iv. 6.

[Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. --Pope.

While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.

2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.

3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]

A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton.

4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. --Dryden.

5. 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.

6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]

Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.

Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow.

To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.]

To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)