Noun : claret cup.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He cupped his ear with the palm of his hand. ,He cupped his hands.    From Dictionary.com. 

Moreover, one should not be cupped in very hot weather nor in very cold weather; and the best season for cupping is springtide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

It is also called cupping, clapping, or tapotement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Also known as cupping or fire cupping, it was used by many Eastern European Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Items Refered to in My Mother's Memoirs] Reference

Testing coffee, or "cupping," is a meticulous affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a java junkie] Reference

As a marketing strategy, "cupping" is straight from the wine-industry playbook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

Denise Richards joins celeb detox brigade with telltale 'cupping' marks on her back.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to David and Victoria Beckham axe 14 staff in bid to save money] Reference

Drag to Playlist interviews of patients cured with cupping. avi live video interview of patients cured with "cupping".    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Freedom to set prices key for UK drugs industry] Reference

N Heating up a small jelly jar and "cupping" a boil helps bring it to a head.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"How did you get in?" asked Zeb, cupping his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

 She looks nervous cupping the phone in both hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girl Friends] Reference

 She falls asleep with his hand cupping her shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bomba] Reference

Korman, cupping his chin in his hands, just let it happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [After 50 Years, A Deal] Reference

Colhayne, experimenting a new mode of cupping as I entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

Nay, I was grateful still, and bled him with cupping glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference

I grasped Forget's hands together, cupping them within my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story to Forget] Reference

He put his elbows on the table, cupping his face in his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millennium] Reference

You were laying down and you were cupping your head in your hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2007] Reference

Above and behind the physician are suspended three cupping vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

She stands behind, cupping the child's eyes as the truck pulls away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Nansi] Reference

The other, cupping his earphones to his head with his hands, nodded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

She moved her hand away from the water, cupping a little in her hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.15: Chisame Murakami, Sentinel of Genbu] Reference

She offered me one as well, cupping it lovingly in her dirt-covered palms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Ginny's Lunar Bash, Los Alamos, 1974] Reference

  Toby stood slowly, cupping his crotch and spat away from the men around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dump like no other.] Reference

"Oh, dear," said Dorothy, sitting down on a rock and cupping her head in her hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference

She brought up both hands, cupping them about the knob, but not touching it directly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

Work mitts cupping tarp, hard hats pressed to pane, eyes determined to have their fill.    From Wordnik.com.  [To-die-for] Reference

     Winnie spoke some more, holding her hand out in front of her and then cupping it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ancient Symbol for Fire] Reference

Oh, and also, it involves tape measures – no nudity, and no comedic cupping of the buns.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I bought this week: jeans] Reference

It is clearly shown by the cupping of the two halves when a case-hardened board is resawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

"Now we've got to find a way to get you all out of here," she said, cupping her face in hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference

VOTIVE TABLET representing cupping and bleeding instruments from Temple of Asclepius at Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

After iridectomy the attacks ceased, leaving no pathological cupping of the disc, full vision, and a good field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference

  They nestle together, curve within curve, kneecap to back of knee, buttock against belly,  hand cupping breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Marriage of Bodies] Reference

Case-hardening, honeycombing, and cupping result directly from conditions 1, 4, and 5, and chemical changes of the outer surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

I watched our mother cupping dusty dry bits of her boys in her small hands on that Thanksgiving Day and my heart broke all over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almost There] Reference

It's almost 20 years since Demi Moore posed for the cover of Vanity Fair, one arm around her breasts, the other cupping her pregnant belly.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm very pregnant - and people are unbelievably rude to me!] Reference

Shouldn't we be reading the paper talking about our brilliant children cupping cardamom tea in hands still sweaty from the bed and the sun?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday Morning] Reference