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variant of cyathus

/kuy"euh thos', -theuhs/, n., pl. kyathoi /-thoy'/. Gk. and Rom. Antiq.

a deep bowl set on a foot, often having a high voluted or serpentine handle rising from the brim and terminating immediately above the juncture of the body and the stem: used for ladling wine into drinking cups.

Also, cyathus.

[1885-90; < Gk kýathos]

var. cyathus, in sense 1 a.