Defn: Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Syn.
— Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
SOPORIFIC
Sop`o*rif"ic, n.
Defn: A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
SOPOROSE; SOPOROUS Sop"o*rose`, Sop"o*rous, a. Etym: [From Sopor; cf. L. soporus, fr. sopor a heavy sleep; F. soporeux.]
Defn: Causing sleep; sleepy.
SOPPER
Sop"per, n.
Defn: One who sops. Johnson.
SOPPING sopping
Defn: more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.