| • | To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. |
| • | To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. |
| • | To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. |
| • | To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. |
| • | To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. |
| • | To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part. |
| • | To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. |
| • | To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into. |
| • | To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip. |
| • | To dip snuff. |
| • | The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. |
| • | Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. |
| • | A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. |
| • | A dipped candle. |
