DIPPING, ppr.
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, n.
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.