Sip
- n. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
- v. t. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.
- v. t. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
- v. t. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- v. i. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
- n. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.