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Cup \Cup\ (k[u^]p), n. [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa
tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. k[=u]pa 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. Repeated potations; social or excessive 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.) 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.