Hi Brett C< of fyne' gold garnyshed over cup (kup), v. ; pret. and pp. cupped, ppr. clip- ' pencil pple, and coppel, copple (now commonly 
uVT ping. [<c;>, .] I. trans. If. To supply with CM ,^, based directly upon the ML. form) ;< F. 
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cup 
see coups, coupcS) = p r . Sp. Pg. copa = It. efppa, 
coppo, a cup, < ML. cupii, m/i/xi, cupa, cxppa, a 
cup, drinking-vessel, L. cupa, a tub, cask, tun, 
vat, etc., = OBulg. cupn, a cup; cf. Gr. tb- 
veMov, a cup, Krm/ (a hollow), a kind of ship, 
yiimi, a hole, Skt. kupa, a pit, well, hollow. 
The forms have been to some extent confused 
with those of cop*, the head, top (= D. kop = 
G. kopf, etc.): see eo/A.] 1. A small vessel 
used to contain liquids generally ; a drinking- 
vessel ; a chalice. The name is commonly given spe- 
cifically to a drinking-vcssel smaller at the base than at 
tbe top, without a stem and foot, and with or without a 
handle or handles. See ijlaxs, gublet, mug. 
Also ther be vi: 
withpreciiustoi-,- 
TorKngton, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it 
giveth his colour in the cup. Prov. xxiii. 31. 
Specifically 2. That part of a drinking-cup 
or similar vessel which contains the liquid, as 
distinguished from the stem and foot when 
these are present. 3. Eccles., the chalice from 
which the wine is dispensed in the sacrament 
of the Lord's supper. 4. A cup-shaped or other 
vessel of precious metal, or by extension any 
elaborately wrought piece of plate, offered as 
a prize to be contended for in yacht- and horse- 
racing and other sports. 
Tile King has bought seven horses successively, for which 
he has given 11,300 guineas, principally to win the cup at 
Ascot, which he has never accomplished. 
Gremlle, Memoirs, June 24, 1829. 
5. [_cap.} The constellation Crater. 6. Some- 
thing formed like a cup : as, the cup of an acorn, 
of a flower, etc. 
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. 
1398 
Cuphea 
Cup Of assay See assay. Cup 0' sneeze, a pinch of 
snutf. Grose. [I'rov. Eng.] In his cups, intoxicated ; 
tipsy, 
As Alexander killed his friend C'lytu: 
and h 
Only like a gulf it [the belly! did remain 
I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive, 
Still cupboarding the viand. Shak., Cor., i. 1. 
lytus, being i his ales cupboardy (kub'er-di), a. [< cupboard + -y 1 .] 
Shak., Hen. v.,iv. 7. Lfta a cupboard. Aliss liraddon. 
Standing cup, a large and usually ornamental drinking- CUp-COral (kup'kor'al), n. 1. A corallite. 2. 
vessel (see lianaii) made especially for the decoration of a ^ CO ral polypidom of which the whole mass IS 
dresser or cupboard.- To crush a cup. See c art. TB cu p. s h ape d, as in the family Cyathophyllidte. 
cupee (ku-pe'), . A head-dress of lace, gauze, 
etc., having lappets hanging down beside the 
face. It was worn at the beginning of the 
eighteenth century, and preceded the tall 
commode. 
cupel (ku'pel or kup'el), n. [Also written citp- 
' coppel, copple (now commonly 
utmost force of a calamity, (b) To pursue sensual plea- 
sures recklessly ; sound the depths of vice, or of a particu- 
lar form of indulgence. To present the cup to one s 
lips, (a) To try to force one into a desperate action or 
painful position, (b) To allure one into dissipation or sen- 
sual indulgence. 
cups, as of liquor. 
Plumpy Bacchus, . . . 
Cup us, till the world go round. 
Shak., A. and C., ii. 7 (song). 
2f. To make drunk. 
At night with one that had bin shrieve I sup'd, 
Well entertain'd I was, and halfe well cup'd. 
John Taylor, Works (1650). 
3. To bleed by means of cupping-glasses; per- 
form the operation of cupping upon. 
Him, the damn'd doctors and his friends immur'd ; 
They bled, they cupp'd, they purged ; in short they cur'd. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 193. 
II. intrans. If. To drink. 
The former is not more thirsty after his cupping than 
the latter is hungry after his devouring. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 484. 
2. To perform the operation of cupping: as, to 
cup for inflammation. 3. In golfing, to hit or 
coupelU = Sp. copela = Pg. copella, copelha = 
It. coppella, < ML. cupella, a little cup, a little 
tun, dim. of cupa, cup, L. cupa, a tun (> cupella, 
a small cask) : see cup.'] In metal, a small ves- 
sel made of pulverized bone-earth, in the form 
of a frustum of a cone, with a cavity in the 
larger end', in which lead containing gold and 
silver is cupeled. See cupellatiim. In assaying 
with the cupel the lead is absorbed by the porous bone- 
ash into which it sinks. 
The stuff whereof cuppels are made, which they put 
into furnaces, upon which fire worketh not. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
cupel (ku'pel), v. t. ; pret. and pp. cupeled, 
cupelled, ppr. cupeling, cupelling. [< cupel, .] 
To perform the process of cupellatiou upon. 
These [silver and alloyed gold] are wrapped together 
in a piece of sheet lead, and cupelled or melted in a po- 
rous crucible called a cupel. 
Wheatley and Delainotte, Art Work in Gold and Silver, p. 8. 
break the ground with the club when striking el . dugt (ku ' pe l-dust), n. Powder used in 
tnA nsv I .In. ttn.t?n(itl . ** ... . * i .. _ i_ ^ t 
T ,/.rv>7 purifying metals. Also coppte-dust. 
'bla^-furl cupellate g (ku'pe-lat), . t. [< cupel 
7. "ln P steamboilers'; one of a series of depres- case, aretaken off for heating purposes, 
sions or domes used to increase the amount of cup-and-saucer (kup and-sa ser), a. Shaped 
heating surface.-8. A cupping-glass. j^&^f^ 
J'or the flux, there is no better medicine than the cup g enus Calyptrcea : so named be- 
used two or three times. (. allse t ), e limpet-like shell has a 
Wmthrop, Htst. New England, I. 4,4. cup . llke proce ss in the interior. 
9. A small vessel of determinate size for re- cup-anvil (kup'an"yil), n. 
ceiving the blood during venesection, it has In a metallic cartridge, a 
usually contained about four ounces. A bleeding of two cup-shaped piece placed on 
cups is consequently one of eight ounces. Diintjlisoti. - - - * * " ' 
10. The quantity contained in a cup; the con- 
tents of a cup : as, a cup of tea. 
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is 
a devil. Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 
+ -Ofe2.] 
cupella tc + 
silver from lead 
furnace or in a cu- 
pel. The process depends upon the property possessed 
by lead of becoming oxidized when strongly heated, while 
the precious metals are not so affected. The lead, becom- 
ing oxidized, forms litharge, which collects on the surface 
and flows toward the edges of the metallic mass, whence 
it is removed, the silver remaining in the form of a metal- 
lic disk if the operation is on a large scale, as in the pro- 
cess of working argentiferous lead in the cupellation-fur- 
nace, or in that of a small rounded globule or button if 
the cupel is used (see cupel), as is commonly done in assay- 
ing silver ore which contains gold. 
And now let's go to an honest alehouse, where we may 
have a cup of good barley wine. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 00. 
'Tis a little thing 
To give a cup of water. Talfonrd, Ion, i. 2. 
the inner side of the head to Cup-and-saucer Limpet upes (ku'pez), n. [NL. (Fabricius, 1801), < 
strengthen it. (? ) L . ^^ cuppes, fond of delicacies, dainty, 
cup-bearer (kup'bar'er), n. 1. An attendant coim ected with cupedo, cuppedo, a tidbit, deli- 
at a feast who conveys wine or other liquors cacy orig- _ curj id Oj desire : see Cupid.'] The 
to the guests. 2. Formerly, an officer of the typical genus of the family Cupestda;. C. loM- 
Vi fin a all nisi f\f Q. TAiMTtsisi rvpTiAWlp wVi A tn.st.Ai] t.liP. . _ _ -KT Ai- A i 
wine before handing it to his master 
For I was the king's cupbearer. 
[Early mod. E. also 
cupboard (kub'erd), re. [Early mod. I 
11 Suffering to be endured ; evil which falls to boord ^ UJ> i ord often spelled cubbord, 
one's lot ; portion: from the idea of a bitter or times cober g t to fat the ^ ron . . ME . cu 
poisonous draught from a cup. 
my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from 
me. Mat. xxvi. 39. 
Welcome the sour cup of prosperity !_Affliction may one 
day smile again. 
12. A drink made of wine, generally iced, sweet- 
household of a prince or noble, who tasted the jg a N O rth American species. 
winn bpforfi handing it to his master. Cupesidse (ku-pes'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Cupes 
Neh. i. 11. + -idee.} A 'family of serricorn Coleoptera or 
beetles. The ventral segments are free ; the tarsi are 
five-jointed ; the first ventral segment is not elongated ; 
the hind coxa) are sulcate for the reception of the thighs ; 
the front coxa is transverse ; the onychium is small or 
wanting ; the head is constricted behind ; and the eyes 
are smooth. The family comprises only the three genera 
Cupes, Priacma, and Ojnwia, and the few species known 
are somber-colored beetles of medium size, which prob- 
some- 
cupbord, 
copebord, < cup, cuppe, cup, + bord, board.] 
1. Originally, a table on which cups and other 
vessels, of gold or silver, or of earthenware, for 
LT LI. household use or ornament, were kept or dis- ably breed in decaying wood. 
played; later, a table with shelves, a sideboard, cupful (kup'ful), n. [< cup + -ful, 2.] The 
la. A drink made ot wine, generally icea, sweet- buf f e t, or cab net, open or closed, used for such quantity that a cup holds the contents of a 
ened, and flavored according o many different ' in mod ' er ^ uae gene rally, a series of cup. 
recemts. and sometimes contamme many in- he f ' inc i ose d or placed in a closet, for keep- 
receipts, and sometimes containing many in- 
gredients. The different varieties are named 
from the chief ingredient, as claret-cup, cham- 
pagne-cup, etc. 13. pi. The drinking of in- 
toxicating liquors; a drinking-bout; intoxica- 
tion. 
Another sort sitteth upon their ale benches, and there 
among their cupn they give judgment of the wits of writ- 
ers. Sir T. Ware, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 14. 
Inspir'd with full deep cups, who cannot prophesy ? 
A tinker, out of ale, will give predictions. 
Fletcher (a-iul another t), Prophetess, i. 3. 
Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton, P. L., xi. 718. 
Circe's cup, the enchanted draught of the sorceress Circe ; 
hence, anything that produces a delirious or transforming 
effect. 
I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup. 
Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 
Class cup. Sec dass. Coin-cup. See corni. Crowned 
cup. See crowned. Crown of cups. See conronne ilei 
tasgen, under couronne. Cup and ball, a toy of very ear- 
ly origin, consisting of a cup at the extremity of a handle, 
to which a ball is attached by a cord. The player tosses 
the ball up, and seeks to catch it in the cup. Cup-and- 
ball joint. Same as ball-and-socket joint (which see, un- 
der ball'). Cup and can, familiar companions : the can 
being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and 
thus the two being constantly associated. 
You boasting tell us where you din'd, 
And how his lordship was so kind ; 
Swear he's a most facetious man. 
ing cups, dishes, and other table-ware. A cup- 
board of large size and lavish ornament, in the second 
form, was called a court-cupboard, and was especially in- 
tended for the display of plate, etc. This form is repre- (roll 
sented by the modern sideboard, with open shelves above ^up-gaii 
and a closet below. 
The kyngez cope-borde was closed in silver. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 206. 
2. A similar sideboard, cabinet, or closet of 
shelves for the keeping of provisions about to 
be used. Such a cupboard was formerly called specifi- 
cally a livery-cupboard, and in it was placed the ration, 
called livery, allowed to each member of the household. 
Going to a corner cupboard, high up in the wall, he 
pulled a key out of his pocket, and unlocked his little 
store of wine, and cake, and spirits. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, iii. 
Hence 3. The set or collection of silver or 
gold plate, fine glass, decorated ceramic ware, 
etc., usually kept in a cupboard. Compare cre- 
dence, 4. 
There was also a Cupbord of plate, most sumptuous and 
rich. llakhnjt'x Voyayes, I. 313. 
Cupboard love, interested attachment. 
A cupboard love is seldom true, 
A love sincere is found in few. 
That you and he are cup and can. 
CUpboardt (kub'erd), r. t. 
roof Jiobin. 
[< Clipboard, .] To 
Svtift. gather as into a cupboard ; hoard up. 
Thane cho wente to the welle by the wode enis, 
That alle wellyde of wyne, and wonderliehe rynnes ; 
KailKhte up a coitpe-fulle, and coverde it faire. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3379. 
;up-gall (kup'gal), n. A singular kind of gall 
found on the leaves of the oak and some other 
trees, of the figure of a cup, or a drinking-glass 
without its foot, adhering by its point or apex 
to the leaf, and containing the larva of a small 
fly. The insect which makes 
cup-galls is Cecidomyia pocu- 
lum. 
cup-guard (kup'gard), n. A 
sword-guard in which the 
hand is protected by a hollow 
metal cup opening toward 
the hand. It usually sur- 
rounds the blade beyond and 
outside of the cross-guard. 
See itilt. 
Cuphea (ku'fe-a), H. [NL., 
with reference to the gibbous 
base of the calyx, < Gr. xi^wf, 
a hump.] A genus of Lythrn- 
ceas, herbs 01 iindershmbs, 
natives of tropical America 
and Mexico, of which thi'ee species occur in the 
United States. Many have bright-colored flowers, ami 
Flowering; Branch of 
Citfhea lanctalata. 
