Sentence:  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 <WSD>sip</WSD> it with a spoon like any baby. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.