Dip

dip, v.t. to dive or plunge into any liquid for a moment: to lower and raise again (as a flag): to baptise by immersion.— v.i. to sink: to enter slightly: to look cursorily: to incline downwards:— pr.p. dip′ping; pa.p. dipped.— n. inclination downwards: a sloping: ( geol. ) the angle a stratum of rock makes with a horizontal plane: a bath: a candle made by dipping a wick in tallow.— Dip of the horizon , the angle of the horizon below the level of the eye; Dip of the needle , the angle a balanced magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon, measured by the Dipping needle , or Compa . [A.S. dyppan , causal of dýpan , to plunge in— deóp , deep; cf. Dan. dyppe ; Ger. taufen , to immerse.]