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• Cup

  ·vt To supply with cups of wine. II. Cup ·noun The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. III. Cup ·...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cup

  A wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. Al...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Cup

  The cups of the Jews, whether of metal or earthenware, were possibly borrowed, in point of shape and...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Acorn cup

  ·- The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cup shake

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cup-gall

  ·noun A kind of oak-leaf gall. ·see <<Gall>>. ...

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• Cup-moss

  ·noun A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia. ...

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• Cup-rose

  ·noun Red poppy. ·see Cop-rose. ...

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• Egg-cup

  ·noun A cup used for holding an egg, at table. ...

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• Loving cup

  ·add. ·- A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Monkey-cup

  ·noun ·see <<Nepenthes>>. ...

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• Poison cup

  ·add. ·- A cup containing poison. II. Poison cup ·add. ·- A cup that was supposed to break on havin...

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• Sneak-cup

  ·noun One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. ...

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• Cup-bearer

  An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs. The cup-bearer of the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• cup-shot

  Drunk. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stirrup cup

  A parting cup or glass, drank on horseback by the person taking leave. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• butter-cup

  The flower of the ranunculus ficarius. It seems to have obtained its name from a vulgar error, that ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cup o'sneeze

  a pinch of snuff. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Three Cup Court

  South out of Newgate Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). Or " King's H...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Cup and Fan Court

  In Leadenhall Street (P.C. 1732). Also called "Cap and Fan Court." See Five Bell Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cup of the creature

  A cup of good liquor. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose