2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
Acts xvi. 16. 3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
Eclus. xxxiv. 5. Sootiness
(Soot"i*ness) n. The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. Johnson.
Sootish
(Soot"ish), a. Sooty. Sir T. Browne.
Sooty
(Soot"y) a. [Compar Sootier ; superl. Sootiest.] [AS. stig. 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.
Sooty
(Soot"y), v. t. To black or foul with soot. [R.]
Sootied with noisome smoke.
Chapman. Sop
(Sop) n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. span 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
(Sop), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping.] To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sope
(Sope) n. See Soap. [Obs.]
