Forms: 3–4 i-sode, 4–5 sode, 5–7 sodde, 6– sod. [Pa. pple. of SEETHE v. Cf. SODDEN pa. pple., etc.]
† 1. Of food, liquor, etc.: Boiled; prepared by boiling. Obs.
pred. 1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 9164. Þe bones hii bere Wel iselt & isode to þe abbeye of redinge.
13[?]. Seuyn Sag., 1574 (W.). Barli-water, that was i-sode.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 246. Flesh y-rostid, wych is more hottyr than … sode in watyr.
1588. R. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 309. Eating of those bodies which they had slaine, some sodde and some roasted.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. II. i. (1651), 70. Beer, if it be … over strong, or not sod,… frets and gauls.
attrib. c. 1386. Chaucer, Parson’s T., ¶ 827. So thise shrewes ne holden hem nat apayed of roosted flessh and sode flessh.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 270. Sche let do sowe The lond with sode whete aboute.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 42. Nym sode Porke & chese.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., Q iij. Sodde peres releue the stomake greued.
1598. Lodge, Looking Gl. for Lond. & Eng., B iv. Whay, curds, creame, sod milke, raw-milke.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 373. Rost and sodde meates.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 898. Wool wet in sod or sweet wine.
† b. Twice sod, stale, unpalatable. Obs.
1598. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., IV. x. Is meat twice sod to you, sir?
1608. Chapman, Byron’s Consp., IV. i. 114. You make all state before Vtterly obsolete; all to come, twice sod.
1610. [see COLEWORT 4].
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., II. 130. The example doth so suite the Text, that I could not pretermit it here, though it be mentioned before: neither is it coleworts twice sod.
† c. Of persons: Sodden, soaked or steeped in liquor. Obs.
1613. Beaum. & Fl., Captain, IV. ii. All the rest … are in Limbo patrum, Where they lye sod in sack.
2. a. Of bread: Sodden.
1836. Penny Cycl., V. 373/1. So that no part of the dough may form a sod or ill-raised bread.
b. Sod oil (see quots.).
1883. R. Haldane, Workshop Rec., Ser. II. 367/2. The oil pressed out of the fermented skins is known as ‘sod oil.’
1885. A. Watt, Leather Manuf., xxvii. 341. ‘Sod oil,’ a greasy matter obtained in the treatment of sheep-skins.
† 3. As sb. Boiled meat. Obs.
1548. Elyot, Acapna thysia,… spoken of a simple feast, wherin is neither bake, roste nor sodde.
1558. Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr., 33 b. You maye gyue hym roste and sodde with pottage of Amylum.
1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, iii. 9. Not that hee’le cloy him there with rost or sod.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Maiden’s Blush, 218. While hee is set-up with his Sod and Roast.
