Part 575

Acts xvi. 16.

3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.

Eclus. xxxiv. 5.

Soot"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. Johnson.

Soot"ish, a. Sooty. Sir T. Browne.

Soot"y (?), a. [Compar Sootier (?); superl. Sootiest.] [AS. s&?;tig. See Soot.] 1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.

2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron." Milton.

Sooty albatross (Zoöl.), an albatross (Phœbetria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie. -- Sooty tern (Zoöl.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.

Soot"y, v. t. To black or foul with soot. [R.]

Sootied with noisome smoke.

Chapman.

Sop (?), n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s&?;pan to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup.] 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.] P. Plowman.

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.

Sop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping.] To steep or dip in any liquid.