Sip (sip), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped (sipt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. sUpan 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.
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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.
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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.
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