Crossword clues for cupped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cup \Cup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupped (k[u^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]
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To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
Cup us, till the world go round.
--Shak. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
(Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
Wiktionary
in the shape of a cup v
(en-pastcup)
WordNet
See cup
n. a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar" [syn: cupful]
a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle; "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"
a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition; "the school kept the cups is a special glass case" [syn: loving cup]
any cup-shaped concavity; "bees filled the waxen cups with honey"; "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"; "the cup of her bra"
the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green; "he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"; "put the flag back in the cup"
a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
cup-shaped plant organ
Usage examples of "cupped".
The leaves, which are rather larger than a shilling, fleshy, cupped, and glaucous, are curiously arranged on the stems, somewhat reflexed, and otherwise twisted at their axils, presenting a flattened but pleasing appearance.
Gurgi silently gave the bauble back to Taran who, heavy hearted, cupped it in his hands again.
She groped at the bundle, found a faded leather pouch that actually crumbled to dust in her hands, leaving nothing in her cupped fingers except, strangely, a nail marked by rusting stains.
With a flourish, Eddie the Knuckler lifted his cupped hands and presented the gang leader with an impressive stash of gleaming coins.
Irrepressible as ever, Lache leaned back, cupped her head in his broad hand, and bending it to his own, planted a noisy kiss on her nose.
He offered Lucida his cupped hands and helped catapult her up through a vent.
He cupped the fingers of her left hand around it, and motioned her to her place within the mosaicked sign cut into the floor of the Temple.
Battle Triumph, the people answering with whoops and beating their cupped palms on their chests, children running about chasing each other, wrestling, their bodies slick with nuggar grease.
The flame flared orangey red, as he cupped his hands around it automatically, even though there was no wind.
Bir cupped the globe in his hands and sat staring beyond it into the pointillist dapple of the trees.
The Rethe recoiled with a sharp clap of her cupped palms, but Etienne ignored her as she unclipped the rope from her harness.
The two men stopped by the hedge, and Skeat cupped his hands and shouted towards the woods, Come on out, you daft bastard!
At 0928 all four LVT waves were approaching the beach in line, not one of the 84 amphtracs falling behind more than a couple of lengths, their cupped tracks churning the blue water into curling sheepskins of white foam, their square bows throwing spray until everyone on board was drenched, but nobody cared.
He was inclined to sit there for a few minutes with his buttocks cupped in the luxuriously polished wooden annulus of the shite-hole, and to savor this triumph, just as the late Samuel Pepys had taught him to do in the case of urination.
The bottler considered his position quickly while the knight rested his chin on his cupped hand.