sip /ˈsɪp/
 啜飲(vi.)啜飲(vt.)啜
 Sip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.]
 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.”
 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.
 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.
 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.
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 sip
      n : a small drink [syn: nip]
      v : drink in sips; "She was sipping her tea"
      [also: sipping, sipped]