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Cup

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.

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Acorn cup 76% connected

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

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Beaker 76% connected

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

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Chalice 76% connected

A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

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Cupule 76% connected

A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

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Goblet 76% connected

A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.

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Scyphus 76% connected

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

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Teacup 76% connected

A small cup from which to drink tea.

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Concavity 76% connected

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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Container 76% connected

One who, or that which, contains.

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Crockery 76% connected

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Hole 76% connected

Whole.

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Inclose 76% connected

To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

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Incurvation 76% connected

The act of bending, or curving.

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Insert 76% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Prize 76% connected

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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Punch 76% connected

A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the k…

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Trophy 76% connected

A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected i…

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Gill 70% connected

An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

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Containing whole 1

Pint 70% connected

A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.

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Cupful 92% connected

As much as a cup will hold.

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Transfuse 92% connected

To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

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