sop (sop)

[ E. soup: see soup2 ) = Icel. or throw a sop to Cerberus, to quiet a troublesome person by a conce ion or a bribe. See def. 3. sop (sop), v.; pret. and pp. sopped, ppr. sopping. [Early mod. E. soppe, To Soppe , off am int in gere. Levins, Manip. Vocab. (E. E. T. S.), p. 169. His cheeks, as snowy apples sopt in wine, Had their red roses quencht with lilies white. G. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph on Earth, st. 11. 2. To take up by absorption: followed by up : as, to sop up water with a sponge. II. in trans. 1. To soak in; penetrate, as a liquid; percolate. Sopping and soaking in among the leaves, oozing down into the boggy ground, went a dark, dark stain. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xlvii. 2. To be drenched; be soaked with wet: as, his clothes were sopping with rain.