In more modern times, the middle ages for example, we find historic illustration of a new use of the word, where _Skoll_ was applied in another though allied sense. Thus it is said of one of the leaders in the Gowryan conspiracy "that he did drink his _skoll_ to my Lord Duke," meaning that the health of that nobleman was pledged; and again, at a festive table, we read that the _scoll_ passed about; and, as a still better illustration, Calderwood says that drinking the king's _skole_ meant the drinking of his cup in honour of him, which, he adds, should always be drank standing. In more modern times, however, drinking-cups have been formed of various materials, all of which have, at least in regard to idea, a preferable and more humane foundation than the one from which we derive the term. Thus, for many centuries past, gold and silver vessels of every form and pattern have been introduced, either with or without lids, and with or without handles. HANAP is the name of a small drinking-cup of the 15th and 16th centuries, made usually of silver, gilt, standing upon feet. They were made at Augsburgh and Nuremberg. In an old French translation of Genesis, we find at v. 5, c. xliv.:--"Le Hanap que vous avez amblèe est le Hanap mon Seignor, et quel il solort deleter, male chose avez fait," relating to the silver cup Joseph ordered to be put in his brother's sack. In some Scotch songs a drinking-cup is called cogne or cog: this word is also spelt in different parts of Scotland cogie, and coig. This word may be compared with _coculum_ (medical Latin for a hollow wooden vessel), also with the old German _kouch_, and the Welsh _cawg_, a basin. The Flemish drinking-cups of the 16th and 17th centuries were called _vidricomes_, _i.e._ "come-agains." The bell-shaped drinking-glasses of the sixteenth century are specially worthy of observation; and there are three very good specimens in the Bernal Collection at the South-Kensington Museum, one of which is said to be German, and the others Venetian. The mounting of the German glass consists of a hollow sphere in silver, which encloses a dice and is surmounted by a small statuette of Fortune. To the mounting of another of these glasses is attached a little bell. These glasses will stand in the reversed position only, and were of course intended to be emptied at one draught, the dice being shaken or the bell tinkled as a finale to the proceeding. There is also a curious cup in the possession of the Vintners' Company, representing a milk-maid carrying a pail on her head. This pail is set on a swivel, and is so contrived that the uninitiated, when attempting to drink, invariably receive its contents on their neck or chest. In the last century it was very fashionable to convert the egg of the ostrich or the polished shell of the cocoa-nut, set in silver, into a drinking-vessel.