Pa. t. and pple. tipped, tipt. Forms: 5–6 typpe, 7– tip. Pa. t. 5 typpud, 5– tipped, 7– tipt (6 typte, 7 tip’d). [f. TIP sb.1 But perhaps partly representing ON. typpa (Norw. typpa) to tip or top, and ON. typptr (Norw. typpt), tipped, topped.]
trans. To furnish with a tip; to put a tip on, or put something on at the tip (const. with); to form the tip of, or adorn at the tip.
1483. Cath. Angl., 389/1. To typpe, cornutare.
1530. Palsgr., 758/2. I typpe a staffe with yron, je armoye.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 414. He that did tip stone iugges about the brimme, Met with a blacke pot, and that pot tip’d him.
1718. Pope, Iliad, VII. 501. Arose the golden chariot of the day, And tipp’d the mountains with a purple ray. Ibid. (1728), Dunc., I. 142 [162]. Quarto’s, octavo’s, shape the less’ning pyre; And last, a little Ajax tips the spire.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 37. The faint sun tipt the rising ground.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. xix. 471. Steel … to tip the shares and ploughshoes.
1897. Flandrau, Harvard Episodes, 104. Two brilliant spots of pink tipped his high cheek-bones.
b. Most freq. in pa. pple. (See also TIPPED ppl. a.1 2.)
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sompn. T., 32. His felawe hadde a staf tipped [v.r. typped] with horn.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 6968. A stalworth spere … With stelen hed that wel was tipped.
14[?]. Tundale’s Vis., 870. His snowte was with irne typped.
1555. Eden, Decades, 21. Arrowes typte with bones.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 254. Their Hunters horne … tipt with silver.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 580. In his hand a Reed Stood waving, tipt with fire.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 342. Flowers … white tipped with green. Ibid., III. 284. Scales … fringed, tipt and edged with black.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Metr. Leg., Lady G. B., 27. With ink-stain tipt.
1905. United Free Ch. Mag., Feb., 8. The first arrow was tipped with stone of the neolithic age, and the next … with electric telegraph wire, a theft from the twentieth century.
c. fig.
1577. Northbrooke, Dicing (1843), 17. Their venomous tongs (typped with the metal of infamy and slander).
1607. Beaumont, Woman-Hater, IV. ii. Sir, enter when you please, and all good language tip your tongue.
1635. Sibbes, Soul’s Confl., ii. (1638), 18. Doth not Satan tippe the tongues of the enemies of religion now, to insult over the Church?
1735. West, Lett., in Gray’s Poems (1775), 6. The very thought, you see, tips my pen with poetry.
1860. Reade, Cloister & H., lii. An intelligent smile tipped with pity.
