sipped
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Sip \Sip\ (s[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped (s[i^]pt); 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. [1913 Webster]
2.To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers. [1913 Webster]
3.To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
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