DIPPING, participle present tense 1. Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the temperature of water by dipping the finger int it; baptizing by immersion. 2. Engaging or taking a concern in. 3. Looking into here and there; examining in a cursory, slight or hasty manner. 4. Inclining downward, as the magnetic needle. 5. Breaking; inclining; as a vein of ore. DIPPING, noun 1. The act of plunging or immersing. 2. The act of inclining towards the earth; inclination downwards; as the dipping of the needle. 3. The interruption of a vein of ore, or stratum of a fossil, in a mine; or a sloping downwards. 4. The act of baptizing by the immersion of the whole body in water.
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