Sop

Sop (sop)
n.	(?)
Sop
[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.]

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.

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.

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.

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