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Tenfold. [R.]

The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]

Consisting of twelves. Arbuthnot.

A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

The cuckoobud.

A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.

Want of occupation.

Irrecoverable. -- Ir`re*cu"per*a*bly, adv.

The common buttercup.

A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

The scup. [Local, U. S.]

See Nepenthes.

are publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [Obs.] In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow.

The act of nuncupating. [Obs.]

Oral; not written. Nuncupative will or testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

Nuncupative; oral.

The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. Blackstone. Kent.

One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.