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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.”
   Milton.
   
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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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   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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3.       
   Sip, n.
   The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
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   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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