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To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into
a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. |
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To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. |
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To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. |
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To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. |
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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. |
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To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. |
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To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to
sink. |
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To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a
dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a
part. |
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To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. |
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To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self
desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or
into. |
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To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as,
strata of rock dip. |
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To dip snuff. |
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The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. |
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Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line;
slope; pitch. |
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A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or
spoon. |
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A dipped candle. |