To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.
To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.
To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something. [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. Dryden.
The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste. One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. Milton. A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.
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