Sop /(?)/

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.

   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.

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

1. To steep or dip in any liquid.