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Soddin, ppl. adj. (n.). Also: sod(d)yn, sod(d)en, sottin, -yne. [ME and e.m.E. soþen (Cursor M.), sodden, sooden, sodyn, soothen, sodun (all Wyclif), soden (c1400), etc.; p.p. of Seth(e v.]

1. Boiled. a. That has been cooked by boiling. b. Of a liquid: That has been boiled.a. a1400 Leg. S. vii 706.
Persawand prowd sawoure thare Of sottyne flesche 1456 Hay II 119/6.
And till a sclender man and a lene, sodyn metis ar gude 1579, 1617 Despauter (1579).
The bruw of ony soddin thing 1585 Reg. Privy C. III 751.
For a manis ordinar melteth of sufficient braid and aill, soddin beiff [etc.] 1588 Crim. Trials I ii 164.
Sottin 1591 Innes Sketches 526.
For biff, mowtoun, soddin and rostit keponis [etc.] 1595 Misc. Spald. C. II 129.
Thow … ran away with sum soddin muttoun in thy bosom 1602 Elgin Rec. II 98. 1655 Culross I 281.
Suche as guid beif and muttoun, rosted and sodden 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) 59.
Where we fed on sodden leather, Mingled with the crops of heatherb. 1579, 1617 Despauter (1579).
Defrutum, half soddin wyne 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 76.
To take the broth or sodden water with his flech

2. absol., or as noun. That which is boiled: (A piece of) boiled meat. 1456 Hay I 78/34.
The tane lufis quhite wyne, the tothir rede; the tane lufis soddyn, the tothir rost 1652–3 Tweeddale Household Bk. in Sc. Hist. Rev. XIII (1915-16) 417.
Dinner, broth, sodens of mutton, roast beef 1670 Salmon Borrowstounness 92.
To witt, two plaitts full of broath, ane soddin of beife [etc.]

3. Ruined or destroyed by wet weather. 1596 Nisbet I ix.
I resaueit this buke … at med summer quhilk wes the euell summer that all witellis war soden