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Cup   /kəp/   Listen
noun
Cup  n.  
1.
A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
2.
The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. "Give me a cup of sack, boy."
3.
pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. "Thence from cups to civil broils."
4.
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me."
5.
Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. "The cowslip's golden cup no more I see."
6.
(Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet.
Cup and can, familiar companions.
Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping.
To be in one's cups, to be drunk.


verb
Cup  v. t.  (past & past part. cupped; pres. part. cupping)  
1.
To supply with cups of wine. (R.) "Cup us, till the world go round."
2.
(Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
3.
(Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.





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"Cup" Quotes from Famous Books



... these things at once, and could not, but managed finally to get the child a piece of bread and a cup of coffee, and to allay her fears. Ans began to recover from his horrible journey and was able to speak, though ...
— A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen • Hamlin Garland
... the public prints. After he had introduced Arkwright, the senator drew his chair slightly away from him and turned in what seemed embarrassment to the man on his other side. The elderly gentleman next to Arkwright filled his glass, a servant placed a small cup of coffee at his elbow, and he lit a cigar and ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... her lips that like a cup have pledged the lips of heroes all, Paint her golden hair unwhitened while the many winters fall, Paint the beauty that is mistress of the wide world and ...
— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
... drain, while we may, draughts of pleasure, Which from passion like ours will unceasingly flow; Let us pass round the cup of love's bliss in full measure, And quaff the contents as our ...
— Fugitive Pieces • George Gordon Noel Byron
... flowing dress of lilac crepe and a large black hat, had just given Mrs. Meadows a second cup of tea, and was clearly doing her duty—and showing it—to a guest whose entertainment could not be trusted to go of itself. The only other persons at the tea-table—the Meadowses having arrived late—were an elderly man with long Dundreary ...
— A Great Success • Mrs Humphry Ward


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