[f. prec. sb.] Hence Syruped ppl. a., Syruping vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1. trans. To cover with or immerse in syrup. Also, in bottling fruit, etc., to fill the bottle with syrup.
1619. Drayton, Quest of Cynthia, l. Yet when there haps a honey fall, Wee’ll lick the sirupt leaues.
1640. T. Carew, Complement, vi. Poems (1651), 138. Suger’d sweets, as sirropt berries.
1659. Gauden, Slight Healers (1660), 34. As gilded or syrupped bitter pils.
1859. Chr. G. Rossetti, Goblin Market, Poet. Wks. (1904), 7/1. The drip Of juice that syruped all her face.
1875. Howells, Foregone Concl., 34. Padre Girolamo does not shower these syruped rose-leaves indiscriminately upon visitors.
1885. Pall Mall G., 15 Oct., 4/1. The ‘syruping’ and ‘labelling’ is … done by boys.
† 2. To treat with medicinal syrup. Obs.
Cf. Sp. jarop(e)ar, to medicine.
1671. Maynwaring, Anc. & Mod. Pract. Physick, 31. No syruping, no apozems, no Barly waters.
1792. W. Roberts, Looker-on, No. 29 (1794), I. 418. To be perfumed into health, and syrupped into a sound constitution.
3. To make into or bring to the consistence of syrup.
1847. W. J. Evans, Sugar-planter’s Man., 174. Moulds … admit of a … more successful syruping afterwards, should it be desirable to submit the sugar to that operation. Ibid., 180. Liquoring or syruping the sugar has for its object the replacing of the dark-coloured molasses by another liquid of greater purity and of lighter colour. Ibid., 184. When the sugar after it has been syruped is sufficiently dry, it must be … put into hogsheads.
