cupland (kupland)

In British India, the depre ed land along the rivers; the riverbanks. Cupre us vacuum is produced, and the part to which it is applied swells up into the gla . Where the object is blood-letting there is inside the cupping-gla an apparatus called a scarificator, furnished with fine lancets operated by cut by a similar instrument before the cupping-gla is used. Various forms of cupping-instruments are used. Still at their books, they will not be pull'd off; They stick like cupping - gla es . Fletcher (and others ), Bloody Brother, iv. 2. Rom. myth., the god of love, identified with the Greek Eros, the son of Her IMG:content-1815.jpg:[blocks in formation] mes (Mercury) "Oh, a friend of mine! a brother cupman ,"... and Aphrodite Bulwer , Last Days of Pompeii, ii. 1. (Venus). He is generally rep rec up me alt, adv. [ ; sented as a beautiful boy with wings, carrying a bow and A galoun [of ale] for a grote god wote, no le e; And zit it cam in cupmel . Piers Plowman (B), v. 225. IMG:content-1816.jpg:[blocks in formation] times in.. playing, dicing, drinking, feasting, beasting; a cupping - house, a vaulting-house, a gaming-house, share their means, lives, souls. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 277. cupping-machine (kup'ing-ma-shen"), n. The first machine used in the proce of making metallic cartridge-cases. It consists of two stamps or dies, one working within the other. The outer one cuts the copper blank and the next pulls it into the shape of a cup, preparing it for drawing in other machines. E. H. Knight.