Cup /(kŭp)/

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. 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.
    — Matt. xxvi. 39.
  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.
    — Shenstone.
  6. A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. (Med.)

Phrases & Compounds
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
a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping.
To be in one's cups
to be drunk.

Cup

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Cupped; p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping

  1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
    Cup us, till the world go round.
  2. To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping. (Surg.)
  3. To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw. (Mech.)