Sop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping.]
To steep or dip in any liquid.
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Sop (?), n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. span 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.
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