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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
baptism, burial, declined, declining, declivate, declivitous, declivous, descending, dip, dousing, downgrade, downhill, dropping, duck, ducking, dunking, engulfment, falling, immergence, immersion, inundation, sinking, souse, sousing, submergence, submersion
Dictionary Results for dipping:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dippedor 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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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dipping \Dip"ping\, n.
   1. The act or process of immersing.
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   2. The act of inclining downward.
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   3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper,
      ladle, or the like.
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   4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or
      metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
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   5. The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums
      with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.]
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   Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center
      of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as
      to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or
      inclination.
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