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Meaning Of Cup
n.
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.
n.
The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
n.
Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in
intoxicating drinks; revelry.
n.
That which is to be received or indured; that which is
allotted to one; a portion.
n.
Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a
flower.
n.
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce
the vacuum in cupping.
v. t.
To supply with cups of wine.
v. t.
To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the
operation of cupping. See Cupping.
v. t.
To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end
of a screw.