DIP
Dip, v. i.
1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge.
2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part. Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. L'Estrange.
3. To pierce; to penetrate; — followed by in or into. When I dipt into the future. Tennyson.
4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; — followed by in or into. "Dipped into a multitude of books." Macaulay.
5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.]
DIP
Dip, n.
1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." Glover.
2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.