dip

The inclination of the magnetic needle towards the earth. (See dipping-needle.) Also, the smallest candle formerly issued by the purser.

← dinnage × dip, to →

Dip
·vi To dip snuff. II. Dip ·noun A dipped candle. III. Dip ·vt To plunge or engage thoroughly in an...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
dip
To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn, wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put in...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
dip
butter, sugar, and verjuice, used as sauce to pudding, and particularly to barm dumplins. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
to dip snuff
A mode of taking tobacco, practised by women in some parts of the United States, and particularly at...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
sweet-dip
butter, sugar, and verjuice, used as sauce to pudding, and particularly to barm dumplins. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
dip, to
To lower. An object is said to be dipping when by refraction it is visible just above the horizon. A...

The Sailor's Word-Book
dip-sector
An ingenious instrument for measuring the true dip of the horizon, invented by Dr. Wollaston, and ve...

The Sailor's Word-Book
purser's dip
The smallest dip-candle. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
dip of the horizon
The angle contained between the sensible and apparent horizons, the angular point being the eye of t...

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