{ } a. [ See Sweet. ] Sweet. [ Obs. ] “The soote savour of the vine.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. G. suttern to boil gently. ] A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]