The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acus needle + premere, pressum, to press. ] (Surg.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Acupuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acus needle + punctura a pricking, fr. pungere to prick: cf. F. acuponcture. ] Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.): The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes, such as to relieve pain. It was first recorded as being practised in China, and the technique is believed to be over 2, 000 years old. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Acupuncture
(An NIH Consensus Statement prepared by a nonadvocate, non-Federal panel of experts)

November 3-5, 1997
Vol. 15, No. 5

Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in post-operative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofacial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma where acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.
taken from: https://web.archive.org/web/20011126211520/http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/107/107_intro.htm [ PJC ]

v. t. To treat with acupuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aucupatio, fr. auceps, contr. for aviceps; avis bird + capere to take. ] Birdcatching; fowling. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly Ranunculus bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. concupiscentia. ] Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness. Horne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. concupiscens, p. pr. of concupiscere, v. incho. of concupere to long for; con- + cupere. See Covet. ] Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to concupiscence. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Concupiscent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. concupiscible. ] 1. Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exciting desire, good or evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being concupiscible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Concupiscence. [ Used only in “Troilus and Cressida” ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a California plant (Platystemon californicus) with small pale yellow flowers.
Syn. -- Platystemon californicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. kūpa pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. [ 1913 Webster ]

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cupped p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping. ] 1. To supply with cups of wine. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cup us, till the world go round. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Antiq.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master. “I was the king's cupbearer.” Neh. i. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cup + board. ] 1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. “A cupboard love is seldom true.” Poor Robin. [ Colloq. ] --
To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [ Colloq. ] “My stomach cries cupboard.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet. ] A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [ Written also coppel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cupelled p. pr. & vb. n. Cupelling. ] To refine by means of a cupel. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ See Cupel. ] The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried down into the porous cupel, leaving the unoxidizable precious metal. If lead is not already present in the alloy it must be added before cupellation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cupfuls As much as a cup will hold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.Cupido, fr. cupido desire, desire of love, fr. cupidus. See Cupidity. ] (Rom. Myth.) The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cupidite, L. cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See Covet. ] 1. A passionate desire; love. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cupolas [ It. cupola, LL. cupula, cuppula (cf. L. cupula little tub). fr. cupa, cuppa, cup; cf. L. cupa tub. So called on account of its resemblance to a cup turned over. See Cup, and cf. Cupule. ] 1. (Arch.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anat.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cup of tea. [ British ]
Syn. -- cupper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Fropm cup. ] One who performs the operation of cupping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. --
Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc. --
Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. cupreus, fr. cuprum. ] Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one of the genera of cypress trees, the type genus of the Cupressaceae.
Syn. -- genus Cupressus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Cuprum. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cuprum + -ferous. ] Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cuprum + -oid. ] (Crystalloq.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Red poppy. See Cop-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Cuprum. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Chem.) Copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Forestry) A shake or fissure between the annual rings of a tree, found oftenest near the roots. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. shaped like a cup.
Syn. -- cupular, cupulate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cupola. ] 1. (Bot.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A sucker or acetabulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cupule + -ferous: cf. F. cupulifère. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. décuple, L. decuplus, fr. decem ten. ] Tenfold. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A number ten times repeated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]