Dictionary entry

Cup (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cup, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cupped (kŭpt); p. pr. & vb. n.Cupping.] 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.