Sip

[Sip]

When you drink a small amount of something, you sip it. If your cocoa is extremely hot, you should probably sip it until it cools off a little bit.

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To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.

Noun
a small drink

Verb
drink in sips; "She was sipping her tea"

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.

v. t.
To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

v. t.
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

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

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

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

v. i.
See Seep.

Sip

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.] 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. 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. [Poetic]
They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.

Sip

Sip, v. i. 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.

Sip

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

Sip

Sip , v. i. See Seep. [Scot. & U.S.]

To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.

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

The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

See Seep.

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Usage Examples

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Misspelled Form

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