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   Sip , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. span to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. t.]
   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.”
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   To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
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   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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