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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See <er>Cupping</er>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>To make concave or in the form of a cup; <as>as, to <ex>cup</ex> the end of a screw</as>.</def>

<h1>Cupbearer</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cup"bear`er</hw> <tt>(-b?r`?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an enterainment.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Antiq.)</fld> <def>One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master.</def> "I was the king's <i>cupbearer</i>."

<i>Neh. i. 11.</i>

<h1>Cupboard</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cup"board</hw> <tt>(k?b"b?rd)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cup + <ets>board</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A board or shelf for cups and dishes.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon</i>.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.</def>

<cs><col>Cupboard love</col>, <cd>interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard.</cd> "A <i>cupboard love</i> is seldom true." <i>Poor Robin.</i> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To cry cupboard</col>, <cd>to call for food; to express hunger.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> "My stomach cries cupboard." <i>W. Irving.</i></cs>

<h1>Cupboard</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cup"board</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Cupel</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cu"pel</hw> <tt>(k?"p?l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>cupella</ets> cup (cf. L. <ets>cupella</ets>, small cask, dim. of <ets>cupa</ets>) : cf. F. <ets>coupelle</ets>. See <er>Cup</er>, and cf. <er>Coblet</er>.]</ety> <def>A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>coppel</asp>.]</altsp>

<cs><col>Cupel dust</col>, <cd>powder used in purifying metals.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cupel</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cu*pel"</hw> <tt>(k?-p?l")</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cupelled</er> <tt>(-p?ld")</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cupelling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To refine by means of a cupel.</def>

<h1>Cupellation</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cu`pel*la"tion</hw> <tt>(k?`p?l-l?"sh?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cupel</er>.]</ety> <def>The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.</def>

<note>&hand; The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried down into the porous cupel, leaving the unoxidizable precious metal. If lead is not already present in the alloy it must be added before cupellation.</note>

<h1>Cupful</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cup"ful</hw> <tt>(k?p"f?l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cupfuls</plw> <tt>(-f<?/lz)</tt>.</plu> <def>As much as a cup will hold.</def>

<h1>Cup-gall</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cup"-gall`</hw> <tt>(-g?l`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of oak-leaf gall. See <er>Gall</er>.</def>

<h1>Cupid</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cu"pid</hw> <tt>(k?"p?d)</tt>, <tt>n .</tt> <ety>[L.<ets>Cupido</ets>, fr. <ets>cupido</ets> desire, desire of love, fr. <ets>cupidus</ets>. See <er>Cupidity</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Rom. Myth.)</fld> <def>The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.</def>