tip1 (tip)

[ spoken. [Colloq.] It was on the tip of the boy's tongue to relate what had followed; but... he checked himself. Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit, xxix. tipl (tip), v. t.; pret. and pp. tipped, ppr. tipping. [ His felawe hadde a staf tipped with horn. Chaucer , Summoner's Tale, 1. 32. That light, the breaking day, which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse! = Whittier, Chapel of the Hermits. tip2 (tip), v.; pret. and pp. tipped, ppr. tipping. [Early mod. E. also * typpe, type; A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift , Bicker staff Papers. 2. To turn from a perpendicular position, as a solid object; cause to lean or slant; tilt; cant: usually implying but slight effort: as, to tip a bottle or a cart to discharge its contents; to tip a table or a chair. The red moon tipped Her horns athwart the tide. H. P. Spofford , Poems, p. 98. 31. To overthrow; overturn. Type doun yonder toun. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 506. 4. To throw lightly to another; direct toward; give; communicate: as, to tip one a copper. [Slang.] Tip the Captain one of your broadsides. Noctes Ambrosianæ , Sept., 1832. "Egad," said Mr. Coverley, "the baronet has a mind to tip us a touch of the heroics this morning!" Mi Burney , Evelina, lxxviii. 5. To give private information to in regard to chances, as in betting or speculation. [Slang.] IMG:content-0468.png:[blocks in formation] game. More commonly called the cat. a small stick is struck (as in tip-cat) by one, and hit forward by another. Davies. IMG:content-0469.png:[blocks in formation] 7. In music, same as tongue, 3.- To tip off liquor, to turn up the ve el till all is out. - To tip over, to overturn by tipping. - To tip the scale or scales, to depre one end of a scale below the other, as by exce of weight; overbalance the weight at the opposite end of a scale; hence, to overcome one consideration or inducement by the preponderance of some opposite one: as, to tip the scales at 150 pounds; his interest tipped the scale against his inclination. - To tip the traveler. See traveler. - Το tip (one) the wink, to wink at (any one) as a sign of caution, mutual understanding, or the like. The pert jackanapes Nick Doubt tipped me the wink , and put out his tongue at his grandfather. Add is on, Tatler, No. 86. To tip up, to raise one end of, as a cart, so that the contents may fall out. II. in trans. 1. To lean or slant from the perpendicular; incline downward or to one side; slant over: as, a carriage tips on an uneven road; to tip first one way and then the other.2. To give tips or gratuities. - To tip over, to upset; capsize, as a boat. At tip - cheese, or odd and even, his hand is out. Dickens, Pickwick, xxxiv.