Caup

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Maggie having returned with her jug full of frothy milk, and the potatoes being already heaped up in a wooden bowl or bossie in the middle of the table, sending the smoke of their hospitality to the rafters, Janet placed a smaller wooden bowl, called a caup, filled with deliciously yellow milk of Hawkie's latest gathering, for each individual of the company, with an attendant horn-spoon by its side. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Dumb question – Is it 1 1/2 caup of berries, pureed? ❋ Unknown (2008)

` ` I am pretty weel, kinsman, 'said the Bailie --- ` ` indifferent weel, I thank ye; and for accommodations, ane canna expect to carry about the Saut Market at his tail, as a snail does his caup; --- and I am blythe that ye hae gotten out o the hands o' your unfreends. '' ❋ Unknown (1887)

Then she got a caup, a wooden dish like a large saucer, and into it milked the ewe. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Prostrate on the ceiling he lay and watched the splendid spoonfuls tumble out of sight into the capacious throats of four men; all took their spoonfuls from the same dish, but each dipped his spoonful into his private caup of milk, ere he carried it to his mouth. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Next she carried the caup to the bed; but what means she there used to enable the lamb to drink, the boy could not see, though his busy eyes and loving heart would gladly have taken in all. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Richie filled his friend's cup up to the brim, and insisted that he should drink what he called "clean caup out." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Lord Huntinglen, an undeniable man of quality -- it is pity but he could keep caup and can frae his head, whilk now and then doth'minish his reputation. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

'Maybe I do, and maybe I do not,' answered Peter; 'I am no free to answer every body's interrogatory, unless it is put judicially, and by form of law -- specially where folk think so much of a caup of sour yill, or a thimblefu' of brandy. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

[The "savage hospitality," of which Burns complains in this letter, was at that time an evil fashion in Scotland: the bottle was made to circulate rapidly, and every glass was drunk "clean caup out."] _Mauchline, July, 1787. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

Bailie — “indifferent weel, I thank ye; and for accommodations, ane canna expect to carry about the Saut Market at his tail, as a snail does his caup; — and I am blythe that ye hae gotten out o’ the hands o’ your unfreends.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

“Whisht, man, whisht, man,” said the king; “ye needna nicher that gait, like a cusser at a caup o’ corn, e’en though it was a pleasing jest, and our ain framing. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Blackchester, but I think she stirs not much abroad since her affair with his Grace of Buckingham; and there is the gude auld-fashioned Scottish nobleman, Lord Huntinglen, an undeniable man of quality — it is pity but he could keep caup and can frae his head, whilk now and then doth’minish his reputation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Richie filled his friend’s cup up to the brim, and insisted that he should drink what he called “clean caup out.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

a small shop-keeper in Mauchline, and the comrade or rather follower of the poet in all his merry expeditions with "Yill-caup commentators." ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

Market at his tail, as a snail does his caup; -- and I am blythe that ye hae gotten out o 'the hands o' your unfreends. " ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"Whisht, man, whisht, man," said the king; "ye needna nicher that gait, like a cusser at a caup o 'corn, e'en though it was ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

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