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vegetables, 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.

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. King.

A white soup made of crayfish.

with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup. I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. Addison.

um) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.

A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

one over an obstacle. -- To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup. -- To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that trusts to you." Shak.

A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland. [Written also imrich.]