Dip

dip, v. [dipped (dipt) or dipt, dipping.] To immerse in a fluid and withdraw again; to plunge, as into difficulty, engage to take out by immersing and removing again some receptacle, as a ladle, pail, etc. — v. To immerse one's self to remove something, by immersing and withdrawing a receptacle; to thrust in and partake to enter slightly or cursorily; to incline downward.— n. Action of dipping, or of plunging for a moment into a liquid inclination downward slope pitch sauce to be dipped out with a spoon a dipped candle. [AS. dippan, dyppan, D. dyppe deep, dive.] — Dip of the horizon. (Astron.) Apparent angular depre ion of the visible horizon below the true or natural horizon. — Dip of the needle, or magnetic dip. Angle formed by the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line. — Dipped candle. One made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. — Dip'per, n. One who, or that which, etc. a ve el for dipping liquids. (Ornith.) A small diving bird, resembling the blackbird; the dabchick, a N. Amer. grebe; also, the spirit-duck, of N. Amer. (Astron.) The 7 principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear, arranged in the form of a dipper.— Dip'ping-nee'dle, n. A magnetic needle, suspended to move in a vertical plane and indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip.