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chalice(dictionary)
chalice cell(medicine)
chalice sign(medicine)

chalice (iou)



chalice noun. OE.
[Old French, or its source Latin CALIX, -ic-.]
A drinking-cup, a goblet; the contents of this. Now poet. OE.
poisoned chalice: see POISON verb 2.
spec. The cup used in the administration of the Eucharist. OE.
The calyx of a flower. M17.
Comb.: chalice vine a solandra, Solandra maxima, grown for ornament in the tropics.
chaliced adjective having cuplike blossom; contained in a chalice: E17.