Dip, v. i. 1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge.
2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. L'Estrange.
3. To pierce; to penetrate; — followed by in or into.
When I dipt into the future. Tennyson.
4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; — followed by in or into. “Dipped into a multitude of books.” Macaulay.
5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
6. To dip snuff.