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Webster 1913 Edition

(mŭg)

Noun.

[Cf. Ir.

mugam

a mug,

mucog

a cup.]

A kind of ceramic or metal drinking cup, with a handle, – usually cylindrical and without a lip.

Noun.

[I know not whence derived.] A kind of cup from which liquors are drank. In American, the word is applied chiefly or solely to an earthen cup.