dipt

• Since I came here, I have not seen one man dressed like a tradesman The ladies in general are handsome, extremely gay, and well bred In 1767 the best soap and "dipt" and "mould" candles were sold at the post-office in Boston, according to an advertisement in the "Gazette" of October 26. —  The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
• [1] I to the faithful canvas have consign'd Each bright idea of the painter's mind; Behold from Raphael's sky-dipt pencils rise Such heavenly scenes as charm the gazer's eyes. —  The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1
• The Infant waits without the Church Door, the Exorcism is performed, the Catechizing is performed, Vows are made, Satan is abjured, with all his Pomps and Pleasures; then the Child is anointed, sign'd, season'd with Salt, dipt, a Charge given to his Sureties to see it well brought up; and the Oblation-Money being paid, they are discharged, and by this Time the Child passes for a Christian, and in some Sense is so. —  Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.
• All the trees are dipt, for in artificial Holland every work of Nature is artificialized. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
• And anon Where the ground dipt, a fountain he espied And rushes growing green about its side There rose the sea-blue swallow-wort, and there The pale-hued maidenhair, with parsley green And vagrant marsh-flowers; and a revel rare In the pool's midst the water-nymphs were seen To hold, those maidens of unslumbrous eyes Whom the belated peasant sees and flies And fast did Malis and Eunica cling And young Nychea with her April face To the lad's hand, as stooping o'er the spring He dipt his pitcher. —  Theocritus, translated into English Verse

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