About The Word Sip
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Sip
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What's The Definition Of Sip?
[n] a small drink
[v] drink in sips Synonyms | Synonyms for Sip: nip Related Terms | Find terms related to Sip: See Also | deglutition | drink | drink | imbibe | swallow Sip In Webster's Dictionary \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. ``Every herb that sips the dew.''
--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.
\Sip\, v. i. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something. [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. --Dryden. \Sip\, n. 1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips. 2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste. One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. --Milton. A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. --De Quincey. \Sip\, v. i. See {Seep}. [Scot. & U.S.] |
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