DIPPING, ppr. 1. Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the temperature of water by dipping the finger int it; baptizing by immersion.2. Engaging or taking a concern in.3. Looking into here and there; examining in a cursory, slight or hasty manner.4. Inclining downward, as the magnetic needle.5. Breaking; inclining; as a vein of ore.DIPPING, n. 1. The act of plunging or immersing.2. The act of inclining towards the earth; inclination downwards; 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 downwards.
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