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▪ I. sipe, n. Chiefly Sc. and U.S.|saɪp|
Also sype.
[Related to sipe v. Cf. MDu. sijp, zijp (Du. dial. zijp), MLG. sîp, sipe, Fris. syp, sipe a ditch, channel, etc.]
1. The act of percolating or soaking through, on the part of water or other liquid; the water, etc., which percolates. (Cf. seep n.)
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiii. §5 Seo eorðe hit helt & be sumum dæle swilᵹð, & for þam sype heo bið ᵹeleht. a1583in Sir J. Balfour Minor Pract. (1754) 588 Gif thair be ony persounis that settis furth under the yeird the sype of thair bark cobill,..or ony sype of kitching, to the King's water or well. 1777in Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 97 By the general sipe of the slating there is no mending of the slating without terring the sclates. 1839Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 25 The water obtained from the wells sunk in the warp..is what is termed ground sype, i.e. water filtering through from the surface. 1894Naturalist 23 There is no inflow or spring here apparently, so the water is only sipe.
attrib.1892Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engin. XXVI. 568 The water which thus transpires through the soil is called..by the Americans of the Mississippi Valley ‘sipe-water’ (pronounced seep).
2. A small spring or pool of water.
1825Jamieson Suppl., Sipe, Sype,..a slight spring of water; Perths. 1897Butler Brit. Birds iv. 65 Here and there, many small ponds or ‘sypes’, and birch trees.
▪ II. sipe, v. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|saɪp|
Also sype.
[OE. sipian wk. vb., = Fris. sypje, MLG. sipen (pp. gesypet): cf. MDu. sīpen, sypen (Du. dial. zijpen), MLG. sîpen, MHG. sîfen str. vb. Sw. dial. sipa, Da. sive are prob. from LG.
The length of the vowel in OE. sipian, and the relation between this vb. and the OE. n. sype, are not clear. If the vowel was short, the modern representative would normally be seep v., and the form sipe may really correspond to the continental strong vb.]
intr. Of water or other liquid: To percolate or ooze through; to drip or trickle slowly; to soak.
For various dialect modifications of sense, and transitive uses, see the Eng. Dial. Dict.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 252 Asete þonne on hate sunnan,..þæt hit sipiᵹe & sociᵹe .iiii. daᵹas oþþe ma. 1398,1503[see siping vbl. n. and ppl. a.]. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 2 Plinie..writes of the wode that is called Smilax, how it will let sype through water mixt with wyne, and kiep the wyne still. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 97. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Sipe, to leak, to ooze or drain out slowly through a small crevice. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 446 In this way a considerable amount of water was permitted to ooze and ‘sipe’ out and away. |