The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
iv. 6.
[Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
deep. --Pope.
While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of
Common Prayer. Fuller.
3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton.
4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
--Dryden.
5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other
receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often
with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out
water.
6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
{Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick
in melted tallow.
{To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and
teeth. [Southern U. S.]
{To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return
them to place; -- a form of naval salute.