CUPPINGS
Noun
cuppings
plural of cupping
Source: Wiktionary
CUPPING
Cup"ping (kp"png), n. (Med.)
Definition: 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. 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.
CUP
Cup (kp), n. Etym: [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask;
cf. also Gr. k 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.
2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak.
3. pl.
Definition: Repeated potations; social or exessive indulgence in
intoxicating drinks; revelry.
Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton.
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. (Med.)
Definition: A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce
the vacuum in cupping. 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.
Cup, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupped (kpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]
1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
Cup us, till the world go round. Shak.
2. (Surg.)
Definition: To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of
cupping. See Cupping.
3. (Mech.)
Definition: To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of
a screw.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition