Crossword clues for cupful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cupful \Cup"ful\ (k?p"f?l), n.; pl. Cupfuls (-f?lz). As much as a cup will hold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., from cup (n.) + -ful.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The amount necessary to make a cup full 2 A half pint, i.e. eight ounces
WordNet
n. the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar" [syn: cup]
Usage examples of "cupful".
Add a half cupful of meat stock, thicken with a little flour and butter, and boil three minutes, squeeze a little lemon juice into it, add a sprinkling of parsley and a dash of pepper, pour over the artichokes and serve.
Flake with a fork, and mix with Bechamel Sauce to which has been added the yolks of four eggs well-beaten, half a cupful of grated Parmesan cheese, and lemon-juice and grated nutmeg to season.
Put into a saucepan with two cupfuls of Espagnole Sauce, a wineglassful of sherry, and a pinch of cayenne pepper.
Add one half cupful of stewed and strained tomatoes, a teaspoonful each of made mustard and sugar, and salt and cayenne to season highly.
Prepare a stuffing of one cupful of cracker crumbs, one cupful of oysters, one quarter of a cupful of melted butter, and salt, pepper, minced parsley, and lemon-juice to season.
Stir just enough to make a stiff dough, toss on to the lightly floured molding board and knead another cupful of flour into it.
Mash the fish and mix with two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, pepper to season, and the yolks of two eggs well beaten.
Arrange in a deep dish, pour in half a cupful of stock, and cover with a layer of mashed potatoes.
Warm one breakfast cupful of butter, beat in an egg and three teacupfuls of warm water and pour it over the bread, stirring it lightly, but not mashing it.
Cover with two cupfuls of bread-crumbs moistened with hot water, and seasoned with butter, salt, pepper, sage, summer savory, and sweet marjoram.
And the ornate tin bath of the Archchancellor of Unseen University was lifted neatly off the floor, sizzled across his study and then flew off the balcony and on to the lawn in the octangle several storeys below, without spilling more than a cupful of suds.
When creamy add a cupful of milk, alternating with three and one-half cupfuls pastry flour that has been mixed and sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Add also one cupful of sliced carrot and sufficient water to cover the fish.
Add one half cupful of sliced or chopped hard-boiled eggs to two cupfuls of Drawn-Butter Sauce.
Boil in enough water to cover, adding half a cupful of vinegar, a sliced onion, six or eight whole peppers, a blade of mace, and salt to season.