(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 immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
(v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
(v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
(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 engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
(v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to
sink.
(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. 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 incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as,
strata of rock dip.
(v. i.) To dip snuff.
(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
(n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line;
slope; pitch.
(n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or
spoon.
(n.) A dipped candle.
