Word Meanings - CUPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who performs the operation of cupping.

Related words: (words related to CUPPER)

• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• CUPPING
  The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• CUPPY
  1. Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions. 2. Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• SCUPPAUG
  See SCUP
• SCUPPERNONG
  An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
• PROPERATION
  The act of hastening; haste. T. Adams.
• SCUPPER
  An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole. Scupper hose , a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of
• COOPERATION
  The association of a number of persons for their benefit. (more info) 1. The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.
• INOPERATION
  Agency; influence; production of effects. Bp. Hall.