siping, vbl. n. Now dial.
(ˈsaɪpɪŋ)
[f. sipe v.]
The action of percolating, oozing, etc.; the result of this; also pl., water or other liquid that has oozed or leaked.
| 1503 Eng. Misc. (Surtees) 30 So that no fylth..discend from the same swynstye..excepte yt it be by sipynge, or casualtie. 1621 Granger On Eccl. 316 The siping through of waters into the house. 1808 in Jamieson. 1825– in dialect glossaries, etc. (Northumb., Yks.). c 1880 in Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. (1894) 644 Sandy gravel, with a small siping of water. |
So ˈsiping ppl. a. Also as adv.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (Bodl. MS.), Whanne þe posteme is in state men schal vse temperinge þinges and scheding and naissching and cypingg. 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. iii. 24 Here fifty Sisters in a sieve do draw Thorough-siping water. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 408 A siping wet neet. |