Word Meanings - CUPULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cuplet or little cup, as the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

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• ACORN
  A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. (more info) acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs 1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
• ACORN CUP
  The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• ACORNED
  1. Furnished or loaded with acorns. 2. Fed or filled with acorns. Shak.
• CHESTNUT
  The edible nut of a forest tree of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that
• FILBERT
  The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate. Note: In England filberts are usually large hazelnuts, especially the nuts from selected
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• ACORN-SHELL
  One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• SEA ACORN
  An acorn barnacle .
• HORSE-CHESTNUT
  The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus (Æ. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the
• WATER CHESTNUT
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.