Cup
Cup (kup) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon cuppe, Late Latin cuppa cup; compare Latin cupa tub, cask; compare also Greek ky`ph hut, Sanskrit kūpa pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Compare Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.]
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.
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.
(Medicine) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Collocations (4)
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. — Milman
Cup and can , familiar companions.
To be in one's cups , to be drunk.
Cup (kupt) , transitive verb
1.
To supply with cups of wine. [Rare]
Cup us, till the world go round.
2.
(Surgery) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
3.
(Mechanics) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.