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.   --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.]
 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.


 Sops·a·vine n. See Sops of wine, under Sop.

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