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Webster 1913 Edition

Cupboard

Cup′board

(kŭb′bẽrd)
,
Noun.
[Cup +
board
.]
1.
A board or shelf for cups and dishes.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
2.
A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
Cupboard love
,
interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard.
“A cupboard love is seldom true.”
Poor Robin.
[Colloq.]
–
To cry cupboard
,
to call for food; to express hunger.
[Colloq.]
“My stomach cries cupboard.”
W. Irving.

Cup′board

,
Verb.
T.
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
[R.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cupboard

CUPBOARD

,
Noun.
[cup and board.] Originally, a board or shelf for cups to stand on. In modern houses, a small case or inclosure in a room with shelves destined to receive cups, plates, dishes and the like.

CUPBOARD

,
Verb.
T.
To collect into a cupboard; to hoard. [Not used.]

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