1. noun /sɪp/
2. verb /sɪp/
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time
He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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