Dip
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
(3): ( 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.
(4): ( n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
(5): ( v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
(6): ( n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
(7): ( n.) A dipped candle.
(8): ( v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; - followed by in or into.
(9): ( v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
(10): ( n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
(11): ( v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
(12): ( v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
(13): ( v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
(14): ( v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
(15): ( 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.
(16): ( v. i.) To dip snuff.
(17): ( n.) 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).
(18): ( n.) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
(19): ( n.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
DIP, pret. and pp. dipped or dipt. G.
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 int he blood. Leviticus 4 .
Let him dip his foot in oil. Deuteronomy 33 .
One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.
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.
4. To engage as a pledge to mortgage. Little used. 5. To moisten to wet. Unusual. 6. To baptize by immersion.
DIP,
1. To sink to emerge in a liquid. 2. To enter to pierce. 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. 5. To choose by chance to thrust and take. 6. To incline downward as, the magnetic needle dips. See Dipping.
DIP, n. 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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
Priests when offering a sin offering were required to dip a finger into the blood of the sacrificed bullock and "to sprinkle of the blood seven times before Yahweh" (compare Leviticus 4:6 , et al.). See also the law referring to the cleansing of infected houses ( Leviticus 14:51 ) and the cleansing of a leper ( Leviticus 14:16 ). In all such cases "to dip" is "to moisten," "to besprinkle," "to dip in," the Hebrew טבל , ṭābhal , or the Greek βάπτω , báptō . See also Asher . In Psalm 68:23 "dipping" is not translated from the Hebrew, but merely employed for a better understanding of the passage: "Thou mayest crush them, dipping thy foot in blood" (the King James Version "that thy foot may be dipped in the blood"). Revelation 19:13 is a very doubtful passage. the King James Version reads: "a vesture dipped in blood" (from baptō , "to dip"); the Revised Version (British and American) following another reading (either rhaı́nō , or rhantı́zō , both "to sprinkle"), translates "a garment sprinkled with blood." the Revised Version, margin gives "dipped in." See also Sop .
