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Definition of Teacupful
1. Noun. As much as a teacup will hold.
Definition of Teacupful
1. n. As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
Definition of Teacupful
1. Noun. a unit of measure, the capacity or volume of a teacup ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teacupful
1. [n -CUPFULS or -CUPSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teacupful
Literary usage of Teacupful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the diseases of children by James Frederic Goodhart, Louis Starr (1885)
"At this time of life it should have five meals during the day, thus : At eight
AM, a teacupful of warm milk thickened with a teaspoonful of Nestle's food, ..."
2. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1902)
"... as having been supplied to him by a fashionable Yedo druggist:—" Take three
pints of water, and, having warmed it, add half a teacupful of wine. ..."
3. The complete herbalist; or, The people their own physicians by the use of by Oliver Phelps Brown (1867)
"... in doses of from half a tea-cupful to a teacupful, three or four times a day.
It is useful in Scrofula, Dysmenorrhoea, Amenorrhoea, after-pains, etc. ..."
4. The Diseases of Children by James Frederic Goodhart (1891)
"At this time of life there should be five meals during the day, thus: At eight
AM, a teacupful of warm milk, thickened with a teaspoonful of Nestle's food, ..."
5. Diseases and Their Cure: Fifty Years' Experience by O. H. Crandall, Joseph B. Chapman (1898)
"... inject a teacupful of pretty strong sage tea a few inches up into the bowels.
If the first injection does not completely dispose of them try it again ..."
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