Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the temperature of water by dipping the finger int it; baptizing by immersion.

Engaging or taking a concern in.

Looking into here and there; examining in a cursory, slight or hasty manner.

Inclining downward, as the magnetic needle.

Breaking; inclining; as a vein of ore.

The act of plunging or immersing.

The act of inclining towards the earth; inclination downwards; as the dipping of the needle.

The interruption of a vein of ore, or stratum of a fossil, in a mine; or a sloping downwards.

The act of baptizing by the immersion of the whole body in water.