sootwart (sutwart)

Scrotal epithelioma of chimney-sweeps. sooty (sut'i or sö'ti), a. [ Ful sooty was hire bour and ekk hire halle. Chaucer , Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 12. Straight on the fire the sooty pot I plac'd. Gay, Shepherd's Week, Tuesday, 1. 67. IMG:content-1553.png:[blocks in formation] 5772 soppa, a sop ( soppa af vin i, a sop in wine), = Sw. soppa, broth, soup; from the strong verb, AS. sup an (pp. sopen ), etc., sup: see sup. Sop is thus ult. a doublet of soup2 and sup, n. Cf. also sip.] 1. Something soaked; a morsel, as of bread, sophister The Sopherim or students of Scripture in those times were simply anxious for the authority of the Scriptures, not for the ascertainment of their precise historical oriEncyc. Brit ., XIII. 379. gin. soph it, n. An obsolete spelling of sofi for sufi . sophic (sof'ik), a. [ σοφία , skill, clever- dipped in a liquid before being eaten; a piece of bread softened, as in broth or milk, or inne , wisdom, σοφός , skilled, intelligent, learn- tended to be so softened. Thanne he taketh a sop in fyne clarree. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 599. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 28. Of brede i-byten no soppis that thow make. Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop , he gave it to Judas Iscariot. John xiii. 26. Hence-2. A morsel of food; a small portion of food or drink; a mouthful; a bite. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] If he soupeth, eet but a soppe . ed, wise: see sophist.] Pertaining to or teaching wisdom; sapiential. He'll drop the sword, or shut the sophic page, And pensive pay the tributary tear. Cunning ham, Death of George II.