pret. and pp. dipped or dipt.

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 in the blood. Leviticus 4:6. Let him dip his foot in oil. Deuteronomy 33:24. One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.

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.

To engage; to take concern; used intransitively, but the passive participle is used. He was a little dipt in the rebellion of the commons.

To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

To moisten; to wet.

To baptize by immersion.

To sink; to emerge in a liquid.

To enter; to pierce.

To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.

To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history.

To choose by chance; to thrust and take.

To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips.

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.