"sip" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

\Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sipping}.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s?pan to
sip, suck up, drink. See {Sup}, v. t.]
1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to
   take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid;
   as, to sip tea. ``Every herb that sips the dew.''
   --Milton.

2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar
   from the flowers.

3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]

         They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
                                               --Dryden.

\Sip\, v. i.
To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to
take a sip or sips of something.

      [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then,
      sipping, offered to the next in place.   --Dryden.

\Sip\, n.
1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

         One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in
         delight Beyond the bliss of dreams.   --Milton.

         A sip is all that the public ever care to take from
         reservoirs of abstract philosophy.    --De Quincey.

\Sip\, v. i.
See {Seep}. [Scot. & U.S.]