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A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated. Lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon. Keats. Mixing sirup. See the Not…

Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.

Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. Mortimer.

One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. [Obs.] Shak.

egetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth. Soup kitchen, an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor. -- Soup ticket, a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.

A suspicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soupçon of brandy; a soupçon of coquetry.

Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.

That part of a flail which strikes the grain. Knight.

Resembling soup; souplike.

One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. [Obs.] Shak.

Lofty and precipitous. [R.] Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.

Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-up transformer.

nting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body. Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon. Chaucer.

se who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup.

Self-important and supercilious, [Colloq.] The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.

See 1st Stupe.

To foment with a stupe. Wiseman.

Producing stupefaction; stupefactive. -- n. (Med.)

The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. [Written also stupifaction.] Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.

Same as Stupefacient. [Written also stupifactive.]