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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