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cupped, a.|kʌpt|
[f. cup n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Formed or hollowed out like a cup, cup-shaped.
1796Withering Brit. Plants II. 291 [Daucus maritimus] Umbels white, convex, not cupped when in seed. 1817Keats Sleep & Poetry 255 Nibble the little cupped flowers. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 419/2 The buffed layer [in blood] sometimes assumes a cupped form. 1881Broadhouse Mus. Acoustics 233 Instruments with cupped mouth⁓pieces. 1882The Garden 30 Sept. 289/1 A full sized flower..with petals beautifully cupped.
2. Lying as if in a cup.
1929W. Faulkner Sartoris i. ii. 44 He repeated above the cupped match. 1946Dylan Thomas Deaths & Entrances 30 And the bird descended On a bread white hill over the cupped farm. |