Sip word meaning and definition

[noun] a small drink
[verb] drink in sips

\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.]

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