- A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of
about one eighth of a pint, etc. - The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. - The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at
its articulation with the body. - A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related
animals. - The large posterior sucker of the leeches. - One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.