Cup

Pronunciation: kŭpt

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.

The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.

Give me a cup of sack, boy.

- Shak.

Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.

Thence from cups to civil broils.

- Milton.

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.

- Matt. xxvi. 39.

Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.

The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.

- Shenstone.

(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. - Milman.

Dry cup
(Med.) a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping.

To be in one's cups
to be drunk.

v. t.

To supply with cups of wine.

[imp. & p. p. Cupped (kŭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]

Cup us, till the world go round.

- Shak.

(Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.

(Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

Noun	1.	cup - a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
	2.	cup - the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar" Synonyms: cupful
	3.	cup - a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle; "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"
	4.	cup - a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition; "the school kept the cups is a special glass case" Synonyms: loving cup
	5.	cup - any cup-shaped concavity; "bees filled the waxen cups with honey"; "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"; "the cup of her bra"
	6.	cup - the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green; "he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"; "put the flag back in the cup"
	7.	cup - a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
	8.	cup - cup-shaped plant organ
Verb	1.	cup - form into the shape of a cup; "She cupped her hands"
	2.	cup - put into a cup; "cup the milk"
	3.	cup - treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin Synonyms: transfuse

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