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(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .

(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .

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To thrust; to poke.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

Verb

(slang) To understand or show interest in.

You dig ?

(slang) To appreciate, or like.

Baby, I dig you.

Verb

(dipp)

To lower into a liquid.

Dip your biscuit into your tea .

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

* Coleridge

The sun's rim dips ; the stars rush out.

(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

To lower a light's beam.

Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”

To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.

To immerse for baptism.

(Fuller)

* Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer

during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.

To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

* Milton

A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.

To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

* Dryden

He was dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out .

to dip''' water from a boiler; to '''dip out water

To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.

* L'Estrange

Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.

To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

* Dryden

Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.

To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

Strata of rock dip .