English Dictionary: Sop | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sop \Sop\, n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s[?]pan to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See {Sup}, v. t., and cf. {Soup}.] 1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. --John xiii. 26. Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. --Bacon. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. --Shak. 2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. All nature is cured with a sop. --L'Estrange. 3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. {Sops in wine} (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. Garlands of roses and sops in wine. --Spenser. {Sops of wine} (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also {sopsavine}, and {red shropsavine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sop \Sop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sopping}.] To steep or dip in any liquid. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sop a morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth 2:14.) |