sip

Definitions

1. 1.To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
2. 2.To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.
3. 3.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.
4. 4.The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
5. 5.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is the act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips called?