cupn.[AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. kpa pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.]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.()Give me a cup of sack, boy. (Shak.)3. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.()Thence from cups to civil broils. (Milton.)4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.()O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. (Matt. xxvi. 39.)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.()v. t.1. To supply with cups of wine.()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.()3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.()