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De - Pt| English Dictionary: sipped | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sip \Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sipped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sipping}.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s[?]pan to sip, suck up, drink. See {Sup}, v. t.] 1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. [bd]Every herb that sips the dew.[b8] --Milton. 2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers. 3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. --Dryden. | |
