Sip

Definition of Sip

Pronunciation: sĭp

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. [imp. & p. p. Sipped (sĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.]
	2.	To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
	3.	To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. - Dryden.
v. i.	1.	To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something. [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. - Dryden.
n.	1.	The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
	2.	A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste. One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. - Milton. A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. - De Quincey.

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