Category:Tip

Tip, n. Etym: [akin to d. & dan. tip, lg. & sw. tipp, g. zipfel, and Probably to e. tap a plug, a pipe.]

1. The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply Rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear. To the very tip of the nose. Shak.

2. An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or Point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an Umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

3. (hat manuf.)

Defn: a piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat Crown.

4. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in Lifting gold leaf.

5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

Tip Tip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]

Defn: to form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to Tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.

Tip Tip, v. t. Etym: [cf. Lg. tippen to tap, sw. tippa, and e. tap to Strike gently.]

1. To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.

2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to Tip a servant. [colloq.] Thackeray.

3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip A cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor. -- to tip over, to overturn. -- to tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion By, or as by, a wink. [slang] pope. -- to tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

Tip Tip, v. i.

Defn: to fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to Fall off by tipping.

Tip Tip, n. Etym: [see tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight Blow.]

1. A light touch or blow; a tap.

2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [colloq.]

3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, Or the like. [sporting cant]