Cunonia (kunonia)

[NL., named in honor of J. C. Cuno, a German botanist of the 18th century.) A small genus of plants, natural IMG:content-1810.png:[graphic][merged small] order Saxifragaceæ. One species is found in South Africa, and there are five in New Caledonia. They are small trees or shrubs, with compound leaves and dense racemes of small white flowers. The bark is used for tanning. cuntakt, n. See conteck. cunt-line (kunt'lin or -lin), n. Same as cont - line. cuntryet, cuntret, n. Obsolete forms of country. Cuon (ku'on), n. A le proper form of Cyon2. cup (kup), n. [ ME. also coupe, cowpe: cup see coup3, coupe3 ) = Pr. Sp. Pg. cop a = It. coppa, coppo, a cup, vat, etc., πελλον, & cup, κύπη (a hollow), a kind of ship, γύπη, a hole, Skt. kupa, a pit, well, hollow. The forms have been to some extent confused with those of cop1, the head, top (= D. kop = G. kopf, etc.): see copl.] 1. A small ve el used to contain liquids generally; a drinking- ve el; a chalice. The name is commonly given spe- cifically to a drinking-ve el smaller at the base than at the top, without a stem and foot, and with or without a handle or handles. See gla , goblet, mug. Also ther be viij grett Copys of fyne gold garnyshed over with precius stonys. Cup of a ay. See a ay. - Cup o' sneeze, a pinch of snuff. Grose. [Prov. Eng.]-In his cups, intoxicated; tipsy. As Alexander killed his friend Clytus, being in his ales and his cups . Shak., Hen. V., iv. 7. dre er or cupboard. To crush a cup. See crush . - To drain the cup to the bottom, or to the dregs. (a) To endure misfortune to the last extremity; experience the utmost force of a calamity. (6) To pursue sensual plea- lar form of indulgence. - To present the cup to one's sures reckle ly; sound the depths of vice, or of a particu lips. (a) To try to force one into a desperate action or painful position. (6) To allure one into di ipation or sen- sual indulgence. cup (kup), v.; pret. and pp. cupped , ppr. cup- ping . [ cup , n.] I. trans . 1t. To supply with cups, as of liquor. Plumpy Bacchus,. Cup us, till the world go round. Shak., A. and C., ii. 7 (song). At night with one that had bin shrieve I sup'd, Well entertain'd I was, and halfe well cup'd. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 11. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup . Prov. xxiii. 31. Specifically-2. That part of a drinking-cup or similar ve el which contains the liquid, as 2t. To make drunk. distinguished from the stem and foot when these are present.-3. Eccles., the chalice from which the wine is dispensed in the sacrament of the Lord's supper.-4. A cup-shaped or other ve el of precious metal, or by extension any elaborately wrought piece of plate, offered as a prize to be contended for in yacht and horse- racing and other sports. The King has bought seven horses succe ively, for which he has given 11,300 guineas, principally to win the cup at Ascot, which he has never accomplished. Greville, Memoirs, June 24, 1829. 5. [ cap .] The constellation Crater.-6. Some- thing formed like a cup: as, the cup of an acorn, of a flower, etc. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone, Elegies, viii. Specifically-(a) In bot.: (1) The concave fruiting body of angiocarpous lichens and discomycetous fungi: same as disco carp and apothecium. (2) The peridium of a cluster- cup fungus, Ecidium. (b) In golfing, a small cavity or hole in the course, probably made by the stroke of a pre- vious player. Jamie son. 7. In steam-boilers, one of a series of depres- sions or domes used to increase the amount of heating surface.-8. A cupping-gla . For the flux, there is no better medicine than the cup used two or three times. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 474. 9. A small ve el of determinate size for re- ceiving the blood during venesection. It has usually contained about four ounces. A bleeding of two cups is consequently one of eight ounces. Dunglison . 10. The quantity contained in a cup; the con- tents of a cup: as, a cup of tea. Every inordinate cup is unble ed, and the ingredient is a devil. Shak., Othello, ii. 3. And now let's go to an honest alehouse, where we may have a cup of good barley wine. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 60. 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water. Talfourd, Ion, i. 2. 11. Suffering to be endured;; evil which falls to one's lot; lot; portion: on: from the idea of a bitter or poisonous draught from a cup. O my Father, if it be po ible, let this cup pa from Mat. xxvi. 39. me. IMG:content-1811.png:[blocks in formation] Another sort sitteth upon their ale benches, and there among their cups they give judgment of the wits of writ- ers. Sir T. More, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 14. Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton, P. L., xi. 718. 14. In golf , a small shallow hole in the course, frequently made by the stroke of some previous player having removed turf. W. Park , Jr.- Circe's cup, the enchanted draught of the sorcere Circe; hence, anything that produces a delirious or transforming effect. I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup . Shak., C. of E., v. 1. Cla cup. See cla . Coin-cup. See coinl . - Crowned cup. See crowned. - Crown of cups. See couronne des ta es, under couronne . - Cup and ball, a toy of very ear- ly origin, consisting of a cup at the extremity of a handle, to which a ball is attached by a cord. The player to es the ball up, and seeks to catch it in the cup. - Cup-and- ball joint. Same as ball - and - socket joint (which see, un- der ball1 ).- Cup and can, familiar companions: the can being the large ve el out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly a ociated. You boasting tell us where you din'd, And how his lordship was so kind; Swear he's a most facetious man, That you and he are cup and can. John Taylor, Works (1650). 3. To bleed by means of cupping-gla es; per- form the operation of cupping upon. Him, the damn'd doctors and his friends immur'd; They bled, they cupp'd , they purged; in short they cur'd. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 193. II. in trans. 11. To drink. The former is not more thirsty after his cupping than the latter is hungry after his devouring. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 484. 2. To perform the operation of cupping: as, to cup for inflammation.-3. In golfing, to hit or break the ground with the club when striking the ball. Jamie son.