Dipping
DIPPING, participle present tense
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, noun
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.
4. The act of baptizing by the immersion of the whole body in water.