See Also: goblet(1)(dictionary)
goblet(2)(dictionary)
goblet(dictionary)
goblet cell(medicine)

goblet(2) (iou)



goblet noun1. LME.
[Old & mod. French gobelet dim. of gobel cup: see -ET1.]
A metal or glass drinking-vessel, bowl-shaped and without handles, usu. having a foot and sometimes a cover. Also poet., any kind of drinking-cup. LME.
b. A glass or other vessel with a foot and a stem. L19.
A drink contained in such a vessel; a gobletful. LME.
A conical cup or thimble used by conjurors. E16-L17.
A thing resembling a goblet, as a goblet-shaped part of a flower. M19.
A goblet-shaped receptacle for food forming part of a food-blender or liquidizer. L20.
Comb.: goblet cell Anatomy any of numerous column-shaped cells found in the respiratory and intestinal tracts, which secrete the main component of mucus.
gobletful noun as much as a goblet will hold LME.