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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.

A shake or fissure between the annual rings of a tree, found oftenest near the roots.

A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

Red poppy. See Cop-rose.

One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an enterainment.

A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.] Bacon.

A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.

As much as a cup will hold.

represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. Shak.

ain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a celing having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

One who performs the operation of cupping.

cuum 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 irr…

Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions.

Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.