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Sup   /səp/   Listen
verb
Sup  v. t.  (past & past part. supped; pres. part. supping)  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."



Sup  v. t.  To treat with supper. (Obs.) "Sup them well and look unto them all."



Sup  v. i.  To eat the evening meal; to take supper. "I do entreat that we may sup together."



noun
Sup  n.  A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip. "Tom Thumb had got a little sup."






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"Sup" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cairnes found herself under restraints that were amounting to a mild bondage. She must be at home for meals, of course; she had been in the habit of being at home or not as she chose, and often of taking the bite and sup at other houses, which precluded the necessity of preparing anything at home. She must have the meals to suit another and very different palate, which was irksome and troublesome. She must exercise a carefulness concerning her conversation, and that of her ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various

... she was seventeen. The rest of the Wilmots went into Saint X's newly developed but flourishing fashionable society. They had no money to give return entertainments or even to pay their share of the joint, dances and card parties Arthur decided to sheer off. "I came to ask you to the house for sup—dinner to-night," said he. "It's lonely—just mother and Del and me. Come and cheer us up. Come along with ...
— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

... Merezhkovsky, "that joyous sage, who, in the very center of Athens, cultivated with his own hands a tiny garden, and taught men not to believe in any human or divine chimeras, but to be contented with the simple happiness that can be given by a single sunbeam, a flower, a sup of water from an earthen cup, or the summer time, would recognize in Tolstoy his faithful disciple, the only one, perhaps, who survives in this barbaric silence, where American comfort, a mixture of effeminacy and indigence, has made one forget ...
— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky

... the Poet for his morning Sup Fills with a Metaphor his mental Cup, Do you devoutly read your Manuscripts That Someone may, before ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess

... much for kisses, some for Few, Others deep sup, their Thirstings to renew, And mumble into Maunderings, but I, In Kissing, scorn the How Much ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. (The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym Jr.) • Wallace Irwin


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