Sop /(?)/

Sop

n.
  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.
    The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe.
  2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
    All nature is cured with a sop.
  3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.]
    Garlands of roses and sops in wine.

Sop

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Sopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping

  1. To steep or dip in any liquid.