What is to taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden called?
sip — To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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