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- noun Plural form of
dipping .
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Examples
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Church of England as for the "dippings" of the Baptists.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845
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History DEMANDS a thorough COMPREHENSION, not your "quick" little dippings, like tasting a cake by swiping your finger through the icing.
It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario 2009
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The Rouse 1796 ‘No Pole’ has not suffered from corrosion, dippings, deep scratches, or harsh cleanings.
Rarest Half Cent Brings $345,000: The Rouse 1796 ‘No Pole’! : Coin Collecting News 2009
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Because it is first the absence of and then exposure to air that forms the color, deeper colors are more stable when formed from several dippings in the vat rather than from an extended single dyeing.
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Successive dippings of a cloth in one color may give it a darker shade, but no number of repeated dippings or dyeings will ever create black. 31 Because this experience did not agree with the philosophical statements, he knew that the latter, especially Delaval's claims that colors are inherent properties of objects, must not be true. 32
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He asked, "Isn't an intelligent black or mulatto a lot better than the dippings from the bottom of the white barrel?"
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The weight of the water pressing between the cuff and the rest of the gut, bore down a further portion; and so, by repeated dippings, the whole length was turned inside out.
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Two dippings are necessary, about twenty-four days apart.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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Velvet hats and bonnets, after all trimming is removed, may be cleaned by repeated dippings in benzine or gasoline.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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Light shades of indigo are fast to rubbing, and by repeated dippings in a light vat or a medium shade vat deep shades of fair fastness to rubbing can be got.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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