| • | To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into
   a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. | 
											
															| • | To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. | 
											
															| • | To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. | 
											
															| • | To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. | 
											
															| • | To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to
   sink. | 
											
															| • | To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a
   dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a
   part. | 
											
															| • | To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. | 
											
															| • | To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self
   desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or
   into. | 
											
															| • | To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as,
   strata of rock dip. | 
											
															| • | To dip snuff. | 
											
															| • | The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. | 
											
															| • | Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line;
   slope; pitch. | 
											
															| • | A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or
   spoon. | 
											
															| • | A dipped candle. |