Cup

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.
3. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
4. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
5. (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.
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.

1. To supply with cups of wine.
2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.