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 ]