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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.

Cup, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cupped (kŭpt); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cupping.] 1. To supply
with cups of wine. [R.]

Cup us, till the world go round.

Shak.

2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping
apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See
Cupping.


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