1. [n]  a small drink
2. [v]  drink in sips

1. \Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sipping}.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s?pan to
   sip, suck up, drink. See {Sup}, v. t.]
   1. 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.
   2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar
      from the flowers.
   3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]
            They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
                                                  --Dryden.
   

2. \Sip\, v. i.
   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.
   

3. \Sip\, n.
   1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
   2. 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.
   

4. \Sip\, v. i.
   See {Seep}. [Scot. & U.S.]
   

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