Sop

n. [A-S. sype, a wetting, sop, soup, from A-S. sûpan, to sip, taste, soak; Icel. sáup, sûp, soup; D. sop, L. Ger. soppe, Sw. soppa, Dan. & N. H. Ger. suppe, O. H. Ger. souf, sûf.]

1Sense 1. Any thing steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid, but chiefly something thus dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. Bacon.

2Sense 2. Any thing given to pacify; — so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.

3Sense 3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.]

Sop-in-wine, or sops-in-wine, a kind of pink resembling a carnation. Spenser.

[imp. & p. p. SOPPED (sŏpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SOPPING.] [See supra, and cf. Sŏb, v. t.] To steep or dip in liquor.