The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
All nature is cured with a sop.
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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.