Category:Sip

Sip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] Etym: [oe. Sippen; akin to od. sippen, and as. s 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.

Sip Sip, v. i.

Defn: 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.

Sip 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.