advb. phr. [A prep.1 + SOAK.] Soaking. Also fig.
1609. C. Butler, Fem. Mon. (1634), 161. Asoak in milk-warm fair water.
1636. Featly, Clavis Myst., iv. 52. Laying our hearts asoake in teares.
a. 1746. Holdsworth, On Virgil (1768), 50 (Jod.). Seed which they lay asoak.
