Dipt

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} (?); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to
     Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d?pan to baptize, OS.
     d?pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan,
     Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E.
     dive. Cf. {Deep}, {Dive}.]


     1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into
        a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
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              The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
                                                    iv. 6.
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              [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
              deep.                                 --Pope.
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              While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
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     2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of
        Common Prayer. Fuller.
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     3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
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              A cold shuddering dew
              Dips me all o'er.                     --Milton.
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     4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
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              He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other
        receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often
        with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out
        water.
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     6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
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              Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
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     {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick
        in melted tallow.
  
     {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and
        teeth. [Southern U. S.]
  
     {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return
        them to place; -- a form of naval salute.
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