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Sip (sĭp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped (sĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. span 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.

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    2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, “a bee sips nectar from the flowers”.

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    3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]

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    They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.

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Sip, v. i. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

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    [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace;

    Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. Dryden.

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Sip, n.
    1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

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    2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

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    One sip of this

    Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight

    Beyond the bliss of dreams. Milton.

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    A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.

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