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–verb (used without object)

1.	to eat the evening meal; have supper.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to provide with or entertain at supper.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME s(o)upen < OF souper to take supper < Gmc; cf. OE sūpan to swallow, taste, sip. See sup²

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–verb (used with object)

1.	to take (liquid food, or any liquid) into the mouth in small quantities, as from a spoon or cup; sip.

–verb (used without object)

2.	to take liquid into the mouth in small quantities, as by spoonfuls or sips.

–noun

3.	a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME suppen, var. of supen, OE sūpan; c. G saufen to drink. Cf. sip, sop, soup, sup¹

]

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–noun Mathematics.

supremum.

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superior.

2.	superlative.

supine.

4.	supplement.

5.	supplementary.

supply.

supra.

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sup¹ Audio Help   (sŭp) Pronunciation Key
tr. & intr.v.   supped, sup·ping, sups
To eat or drink (something) or engage in eating or drinking by taking small swallows or mouthfuls: supped the hot soup; supped away daintily.

n.   A small swallow or mouthful of liquid food; a sip.

[Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan; see seuə-² in Indo-European roots.]

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sup² Audio Help (sŭp) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. supped, sup·ping, sups
To eat an evening meal; have supper.

[Middle English soupen, from Old French souper, from soupe, soup; see soup.]

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sup (1)

"eat the evening meal," c.1290, from O.Fr. super, which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of Fr. workers.

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"sip," O.E. supan (W.Saxon), suppan, supian (Northumbrian) "to sip, swallow," from P.Gmc. *supanan (cf. O.N. supa "to sip, drink," M.L.G. supen, Du. zuipen "to drink, tipple, booze," O.H.G. sufan, Ger. saufen "to drink, booze"), from PIE *sub-, from base *seue- "to take liquid" (cf. Skt. sunoti "presses out juice," soma; Avestan haoma, Pers. hom "juice;" Gk. huetos "rain," huein "to rain;" L. sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Lith. sula "flowing sap;" O.C.S. soku "sap," susati "suck;" M.Ir. suth "sap;" O.E. seaw "sap").

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noun
1.	a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale" [syn: swallow]
verb
1.	take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon

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Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s?pan to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. t.]

1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." --Milton.

2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]

They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. --Dryden.

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Sob\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sobbing.] [OE. sobben; akin to AS. se['o]fian, si['o]fian, to complain, bewail, se['o]fung, si['o]fung, sobbing, lamentation; cf. OHG. s?ft["o]n, s?ft?n, to sigh, MHG. siuften, siufzen, G. seufzen, MHG. s?ft a sigh, properly, a drawing in of breath, from s?fen to drink, OHG. s?fan. Cf. Sup.] To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.

Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger. --Bacon.

She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair. --Dryden.

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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.

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Sup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supped; p. pr. & vb. n. Supping.] [OE. soupen to drink, AS. s?pan; akin to D. zuipen, G. saufen, OHG. s?fan, Icel. s?pa, Sw. supa, Dan. s["o]be. Cf. Sip, Sop, Soup, Supper.] To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.

There I'll sup Balm and nectar in my cup. --Crashaw.

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