DIP, v.t. pret. and pp. dipped or dipt. [G.]

Inclination downward; a sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; depression; as, the dip of the needle. The dip of a stratum, in geology, is its greatest inclination to the horizon, or that on a line perpendicular to its direction or course; called also the pitch. – Cyc.

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.]

1. To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in water or other liquid substance; to put into a fluid and withdraw. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. – Lev. iv. Let him dip his foot in oil. – Deut. xxxiii. One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. – Pope.
2. To take with a ladle or other vessel by immersing it in a fluid; as, to dip water from a boiler; often with out, as to dip out water.
3. To engage; to take concern; used intransitively, but the passive participle is used. He was a little dipt in the rebellion of the commons. – Dryden.
4. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Little used.] – Dryden.
5. To moisten; to wet. [Unusual.] – Milton.
6. To baptize by immersion.

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 one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
   
   

   The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge.

3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
   
   
   "The dip of oars in unison." Glover.
4. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
5. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
   
   
   Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.
6. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
   
   

   Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. L'Estrange.

7. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
8. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings of subsequent years).
9. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
   
   
   [Poetic]

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

10. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
    
    

    When I dipt into the future. Tennyson.

11. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
    
    
    [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.
12. A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
13. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
    
    

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

14. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
    
    
    "Dipped into a multitude of books." Macaulay.
15. A dipped candle.
    
    
    [Colloq.] Marryat.

    Dip of the horizon (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. -- Dip of the needle, or Magnetic dip, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; -- called also inclination. -- Dip of a stratum (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the pitch.

16. 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.
17. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
18. 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.

19. To dip snuff.
    
    
    [Southern U.S.]