Verb

(tipp)

To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.

* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:

I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].

* Hudibras

truncheon tipped with iron head

* Thomson

Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

Verb

(tipp)

To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.

To fall over.

To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :

the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].

(transitive, slang, dated) To drink.

To dump (refuse).

(US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.

* 1993 , ”:

I tip my 40 to your memory.

To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips

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Verb

(tipp)

* Jonathan Swift

A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

Verb

(tipp)

To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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Verb

(tipp)

To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.

Verb

To pronounce.

To recite.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

To communicate, either verbally or in writing.

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To indicate in a written form.

(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).

* 1815 , :

They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:

It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:

It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?

I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt

To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

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Verb

(en verb)

To try; to assay.

(Ben Jonson)