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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



... called the preparatory classes, the so-called math-sup and math-spe of the preparatory schools attached to the state lycees and attended by ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... and a halt was called for a bite and sup. It was daylight; a cold wan light among a circle of peaks and shafts, overtopped by the Mont Blanc, still thousands of feet above them. The guides were apart, gesticulating and consulting, with many shakings ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet

... the pavement outside. The Doctor started chatting in Spanish to the bed-maker who was sitting at his door whistling to a parrot in a cage. The Doctor and the bed-maker got very friendly talking about birds and things. And as it grew near to supper-time the man asked us to stop and sup ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting

... he be," said Lonegon, sullenly, "but dang it, I'd like a sup o' ale with your leave," and without further ceremony he took the new tankard from the sailor and ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

... to sup, then," said the doctor, staring in the direction indicated. "What say you, Paul, suppose we step up?" Just then a curtain near by lifted, and from a private building a few yards distant ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville


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