cup

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking.
• noun Such a container and its contents.
• noun A unit of capacity or volume equal to 16 tablespoons or 8 fluid ounces (237 milliliters).
• noun The bowl of a drinking vessel.
• noun The chalice or the wine used in the celebration of the Eucharist.
• noun A decorative cup-shaped vessel awarded as a prize or trophy.
• noun Sports A golf hole or the metal container inside a hole.
• noun Either of the two parts of a brassiere that fit over the breasts.
• noun An athletic supporter having a protective reinforcement of rigid plastic or metal.
• noun A sweetened, flavored, usually chilled beverage, especially one made with wine.
• noun A dish served in a cup-shaped vessel.
• noun A cuplike object.
• noun Biology A cuplike structure or organ.
• noun A lot or portion to be suffered or enjoyed.
• transitive verb To shape like a cup.
• transitive verb To place one's curved hand or hands over or around.
• transitive verb To subject to the therapeutic procedure of cupping.
• idiom (cup of tea) Something that one excels in or enjoys.
• idiom (cup of tea) A matter to be reckoned or dealt with.
• idiom (in (one's) cups) Intoxicated; drunk.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To fit concavely over a contiguous leaf. See cupping, 4.
• To supply with cups, as of liquor.
• To make drunk.
• To bleed by means of cupping-glasses; perform the operation of cupping upon.
• To drink.
• To perform the operation of cupping: as, to cup for inflammation.
• In golfing, to hit or break the ground with the club when striking the ball.
• noun A small vessel used to contain liquids generally; a drinking-vessel; a chalice.
• noun Specifically That part of a drinking-cup or similar vessel which contains the liquid, as distinguished from the stem and foot when these are present.
• noun Eccles., the chalice from which the wine is dispensed in the sacrament of the Lord's supper.
• noun A cup-shaped or other vessel of precious metal, or by extension any elaborately wrought piece of plate, offered as a prize to be contended for in yacht- and horse-racing and other sports.
• noun [capitalized] The constellation Crater.
• noun Something formed like a cup: as, the cup of an acorn, of a flower, etc.
• noun Specifically— In botany: The concave fruiting body of angiocarpous lichens and discomycetous fungi: same as discocarp and apothecium. The peridium of a cluster-cup fungus, Æcidium. In golfing, a small cavity or hole in the course, probably made by the stroke of a previous player.
• noun In steam-boilers, one of a series of depressions or domes used to increase the amount of heating surface.
• noun A cupping-glass.
• noun A small vessel of determinate size for receiving the blood during venesection.
• noun The quantity contained in a cup; the contents of a cup: as, a cup of tea.
• noun Suffering to be endured; evil which falls to one's lot; portion: from the idea of a bitter or poisonous draught from a cup.
• noun A drink made of wine, generally iced, sweetened, and flavored according to many different receipts, and sometimes containing many ingredients. The different varieties are named from the chief ingredient, as claret-cup, champagnc-cup, etc.
• noun plural The drinking of intoxicating liquors; a drinking-bout; intoxication.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb rare To supply with cups of wine.
• transitive verb (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
• transitive verb (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
• noun A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; ; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
• noun The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
• noun Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
• noun That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.