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▪ I. sip, n.1
Also 7 sippe.
[f. the vb.]
A single act of sipping; a small quantity of some liquid taken in this way.
It is possible that sype in Caxton's text of Chaucer's Anel. & Arc. 193 may have been intended for sip, but the correct reading is schipe reward.
1633P. Fletcher Poet. Misc. 131 The wine..did appeare no common grape: my haste could not forbeare a second sippe. 1665Pepys Diary 19 Aug., A bottle of strong water, whereof, now and then, a sip did me good. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 33 They..bring it to you scalding hot, and so you must drink it, but at several sips, else it is not good. 1715J. Chappelow Right Way Rich (1717) 169 A sip of some comforting syrup. 1768–74A. Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 234 A sip of Daffy's Elixir, in the morning rising, has proved a powerful means of grace. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xvi, However Oliver might have relished a moderate sip of the same good wine. 1856Longfellow Gold. Leg. iv. Poet. Wks. (1910) 495/1 Between this cask and the Abbot's lips Many have been the sips and slips. 1887Jefferies Amaryllis iii, If it was to be had, a sip of port wine.
b. fig. A mere taste of something.
1728Young Love Fame vi. 442 Will the great Author us poor worms destroy, For now and then a sip of transient joy? 1852De Quincey Sir W. Hamilton Wks. 1890 V. 307 A sip is all that the public collectively ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. 1871N. Sheppard Shut up in Paris 246 They take a little sip of a stroll, a little sip of sleep, and a little sip of manual labour.
▪ II. sip, v.
Forms: 5 syppy(n, cyppyn, 6 syppe; 5, 7 sippe (5 scippe), 6– sip.
[Of obscure origin; possibly a modification of sup intended to express a slighter action.
Kilian's ‘Sippen, pitissare, sorbillare’ is not otherwise certified, and is rendered suspicious by his citing ‘Ang. sippe’; but a LG. sippen in the same sense is given in the Bremisches Wörterbuch, and appears to be genuine.]
1. intr. To take up liquid in small quantities with the lips; to drink by a sip or sips; freq. with of (a specified liquid, etc.). Also in fig. contexts.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 176 Than maystow chese, wheither thou wolt sippe Of that tonne that I shal abroche. 14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 604 Potisso, to syppy. c1440Promp. Parv. 456/2 Syppyn, nowȝt fully drynke, potisso, subbibo. 1530Palsgr. 719/1 Syppe on, Cysse, and tell me what it is. 1584–7Greene Carde Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 162 Yea, let thy Concubine Castania..to sippe of the same sorrow. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 161 Ile haue prepar'd him A Challice..; whereon but sipping,..Our purpose may hold there. a1628Preston Breastpl. Love (1631) 182 Yee doe here but sippe of this cuppe, but then ye shall drinke up the dreggs of it for ever. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 33 They all drink it sipping for fear of scalding themselves. 1733Pope Hor. Sat. ii. i. 47 Ridotta sips and dances, till she see The doubling Lustres dance as fast as she. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 581 With caution taste the sweet Circean cup; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. 1789― Annus Mem. 18 As the bee..Assiduous sips at ev'ry flow'r. 1810Southey Kehama xxiv. v, As a man in social hour Sips of the grateful cup. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities i. v, Who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out.
transf.1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i, As many as haue but the..audacitie to—sip of their lips. 1871Athenæum 26 Aug. 273 The whole French nation..sip in drinking, they sip in reading, and they sip their work.
2. trans. To drink (liquid, etc.) in very small draughts; to imbibe, or partake of, by sipping. Said also of bees, etc.
1611Cotgr., Humé, supped, sipped, or sucked vp [etc.]. a1650Crashaw Carmen Deo Nostro, Mary Magd. v, Every morn from hence A brisk Cherub somthing sippes. 1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. 191 Drink one quarter of a pint as hot as you can sip it. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 505 Let 'em sip from Herbs the pearly tears Of Morning Dews. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 187 Bees, industrious workmen! that..sip the mellifluous dews. 1784Cowper Task iii. 391 He enjoys..Sweet converse, sipping calm the fragrant lymph Which neatly she prepares. 1825Lamb Elia ii. Wedding, None told his tale. None sipt her glass. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxii, The knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger. 1886Pascoe Lond. of To-day xl. (ed. 3) 350 The places where ladies go to eat creams..and sip coffee.
b. fig. and transf.
1602Marston Ant. & Mel. v. Wks. 1856 I. 67 Weele drinke a health, while they two sip a kisse. c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas i. 274 The shippe..sinking sippes the seas, by weight downe borne. 1632Milton Penseroso 172 And every Herb that sips the dew. 1769Sir W. Jones Palace Fortune Poems (1777) 13 The maid attentive sips Each word that flows, like nectar, from her lips. 1871[see sense 1 transf.].
c. With advs., as off, up.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. (1674) 50 The Macedonians..thought to have sipt up every mans State in less than a moneths time. a1763W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 13 Pope had sipped up all the brandy. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 278 A large spoonful of mustard in a pint of warm water, which he sipped off like coffee!
d. fig. To take a mere taste of (something).
1618Bolton Florus 105 That he might not seeme to have once sipt or skimd the honour of their Chastity. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xiv. (1840) 139 Pleasures he rather sipped than drank off.
3. To take honey from (a flower) by sipping.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 76 The winged Nation..skim the Floods, and sip the purple Flow'rs. 1727Gay Beggar's Opera i. i, My heart..roved like the bee,..I sipt each flower. 1878J. Miller Songs of Italy 81, I should sip but one, this one Sweet flower underneath the sun.
4. refl. To bring (oneself) into a certain state by sipping.
1823Scott Quentin D. Introd., I gradually sipped and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with un homme comme il faut.
Hence ˈsipping ppl. a.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 31 That would much better fit some old soker..than his sipping..bibbership. 1871N. Sheppard Shut up in Paris 246 This sip, sip, sipping race have been devoured by a race which does nothing by sips. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 993 Then peptonized milk..may be swallowed in sipping fashion. |