acorn-cup

Then if I have, as your manner to me showeth, and heartily thanking you for that same, my words shall go into an acorn-cup.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Here the precipice rises to the height of nearly one sheer mile with a parabolic sky-line, and its posterior surface is as elegantly rounded as an acorn-cup.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

There is always pleasure in examining an acorn-cup, -- perhaps associated with fairy banquets, where they were said to compose the table-service.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

A great variety of substances have been used for tanning, as the acorn-cup of the oriental bark; catechu and sumach have been also used; but the oak bark is most generally used, as furnishing a large quantity of astringent matter.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 Various

Grandpa and Grandma Lightfoot were just sitting down to a quiet acorn-cup of oak tea, when the boy looked in on them.

Johnnie and Billie Bushytail 1910

So she made a large acorn-cup full, and then cuddled herself in where the wood looks so black and soft, and fell asleep.

What Katy Did: A Story 1887

Twinkle and Chubbins flew to the brook and by hunting around a while they found an acorn-cup that had fallen from one of the oak trees.

Policeman Bluejay 1887

_My love is dead_, etc. Come, with acorn-cup and thorn,

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Various 1878

So she made a large acorn-cup full, and then cuddled herself in where the wood looks so black and soft, and fell asleep.

What Katy Did Susan Coolidge 1870

It is an elliptical skull-cap, white and hard as chalk, smooth within and knotted without, resembling more or less closely an acorn-cup.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869