Cup, subst. 1) a sort of drinking-vessel: Sonn. 114, 12. Wiv. II, 2, 77. Err. V, 270. As V, 1, 46. Shr. Ind. 2, 2. Wint. I, 2, 316. II, 1, 39. H4A I, 2, 8. II, 2, 49. II, 4, 129. H5 IV, 3, 55. H6B II, 3, 60. IV, 1, 56. R3 I, 4, 166. Cor. II, 1, 52. Rom. I, 2, 86. III, 1, 9. V, 3, 161. Caes. IV, 3, 161. Hml. V, 2, 283. Oth. II, 3, 38. Oth. II, 3, 38 Ant. II, 7, 60. IV, 2, 21. Cymb. V, 3, 71 etc. “the sour c. of prosperity,” LLL I, 1, 315. “fill the c. of alteration with divers liquors,” H4B III, 1, 52. “all foes shall taste the c. of their deservings,” Lr. V, 3, 304. “plenty's c.” Per. I, 4, 52. “this would drink deep; 'twould drink the c. and all,” H5 I, 1, 20 (i. e. all the prerogatives of the church).
2) a sort of plate, probably a soup-plate: “there, take it to you, trenchers, --s and all,” Shr. IV, 1, 168. “his viands sparkling in a golden c.” H6C II, 5, 52.
3) the cupula of an acorn: Mids. II, 1, 31.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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