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   Crater (krāˈtẽr), n. [L.  crater, cratera, a mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. κρατήρ, fr. κεραννύναι to mix; cf. Skr. çrī to mix, çir to cook, çrā to cook. Cf. Grail, in Holy Grail.]
   1. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
   
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   2. (Mil.) The pit left by the explosion of a bomb, shell, or mine.
   
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   3. (Astron.) A constellation of the southern hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
   
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   Cup (kŭp), n. [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. κύπη hut, Skr. kūpa pit, hollow, OSlav.  kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.]
   1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, “a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup”; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
   
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   2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
   
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   Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak.
   
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   3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
   
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   Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton.
   
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   4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
   
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   O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi. 39.
   
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   5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, “the cup of an acorn, or of a flower”.
   
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   The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone.
   
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   6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
   
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   Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman. -- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. -- To be in one's cups, to be drunk.
   
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   Cup, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupped (kŭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]
   1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
   
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   Cup us, till the world go round. Shak.
   
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   2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
   
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   3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, “to cup the end of a screw”.
   
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