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CUPS
Noun
cups
plural of cup
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, bearing the symbol of a cup or chalice.
Verb
cups
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cup
Anagrams
• CPSU, CPUs, UPCs, UPSC, cusp, scup
Source: Wiktionary
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
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