cupel, cuppel

[Lat. cupella a small vat or cask; dim in. of cup a =a vat, a cask.] *1. Ord . Lang .: A small cask; a firkin. "Item, 4 cuppells of butter and cheese."-Depred, on the Clan Campbell , p. 112. 2. A aying: A porous ve el, usually made of pulverized bone-ashes, and employed in a aying Por separating the precious metals from their oxidizable alloys. Cupels are made in a mold with a lovers bestow upon each other.