Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 15
Caparison (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.
Their horses clothed with rich caparison. -- Drylen.
Caparison (n.) Gay or rich clothing.
My heart groans beneath the gay caparison. -- Smollett.
Caparisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Caparison.
Caparisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caparison.
Caparison (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse.
The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand. -- Dryden.
Caparison (v. t.) To adorn with rich dress; to dress.
I am caparisoned like a man. -- Shak.
Caparison (n.) Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping, housing].
Caparison (v.) Put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" [syn: caparison, bard, barde, dress up].
Caparro (n.) (Zool.) A large South American monkey ({Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.
Capcase (n.) A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.
A capcase for your linen and your plate. -- Beau. & Fl.
Cape (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
Cape buffalo (Zool.) A large and powerful buffalo of South Africa ({Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2.
Cape jasmine, Cape jessamine. See Jasmine.
Cape+pigeon+(Zool.),+A+petrel+({Daptium+Capense">Cape pigeon (Zool.), a petrel ({Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pigeon.
Cape wine, Wine made in South Africa [Eng.]
The Cape, The Cape of Good Hope, In the general sense of the southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.
Cape (v. i.) (Naut.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
Cape (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
Cape (v. i.) To gape. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Capel
Cape (n.) A strip of land projecting into a body of water [syn: cape, ness].
Cape (n.) A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter [syn: cape, mantle].
CAPE, () Computer Applications in Production and Engineering (conference, IFIP).
CAPE, () English law. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands and tenements.
The writs which bear this name are of two kinds, namely, cape magnum, or grand, cape, and cape parvum, or petit cape. The petit cape, is so called, not so much on account of the smallness of the writ, as of the letter.
Fleta, lib. 6, c. 55, Sec. 40. For the difference between the form and the use of these writs, see 2 Wms. Saund. Rep. 45, c, d; and Fleta, ubi sup.
Capel (n.) Alt. of Caple.
Caple (n.) A horse; a nag. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Holland.
Capel (n.) (Mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
Capelan (n.) (Zool.) See Capelin.
Capelin (n.) (Zool.) Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonid[ae], now within the smelt family Osmeridae: Mallotus villosus, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska; or Mallotus catervarius, found in the North Pacific. The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]
Note: This fish, which is like a smelt, is called by the Spaniards anchova, and by the Portuguese capelina.
However the anchovy used as a food is a different fish. -- Fisheries of U. S. (1884).
Capelan (n.) Very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes [syn: capelin, capelan, caplin].
Capeline (n.) (Med.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.
Capella (n.) (Asrton.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.
Capella (n.) The brightest star in Auriga.
Capella (n.) Snipes [syn: Gallinago, genus Gallinago, Capella, genus Capella].
Capellane (n.) [See Chaplain.] The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Capelle (n.) [G.] (Mus.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.
Capellet (n.) [F. capelet.] (Far.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.
Capellmeister (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. [Written also kapellmeister.]
Capered (imp. & p. p.) of Caper.
Capering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caper.
Caper (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. -- Shak.
Caper (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.
To cut a caper, To frolic; to make a sportive spring; to play a prank. -- Shak.
Caper (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. -- Wright.
Caper (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper ({Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
Caper (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.
Note: The Capparis spinosa is a low prickly shrub of the Mediterranean coasts, with trailing branches and brilliant flowers; -- cultivated in the south of Europe for its buds. The Capparis sodada is an almost leafless spiny shrub of central Africa (Soudan), Arabia, and southern India, with edible berries.
Bean caper. See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary.
Caper sauce, A kind of sauce or catchup made of capers.
Caper (n.) Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
Caper (n.) Pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces.
Caper (n.) A crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper, job].
Caper (n.) A playful leap or hop [syn: caper, capriole].
Caper (n.) Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly" [syn: play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper].
Caper (n.) A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on].
Caper (v.) Jump about playfully.
Caperberry (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
Caperberry (n.) The currantlike fruit of
the African and Arabian caper ({Capparis sodado). Caper bush
Caper bush () Alt. of Caper tree.
Caper tree () See Capper, a plant, 2. Capercailzie
Capercailzie (n.) Alt. of Capercally.
Capercally (n.) (Zool.) A species of black Old World grouse ({Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods and horse of the wood. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]
Capercailzie (n.) Large black Old World grouse [syn: capercaillie, capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus].
Caperclaw (v. t.) To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse. [Obs.] -- Birch.
Caperer (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
The nimble caperer on the cord. -- Dryden.
Capful (n.) As much as will fill a cap.
A capful of wind (Naut.), A light puff of wind.
Capful (n.) The quantity that a cap will hold.
Capias (n.) (Low) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.
Note: One principal kind of capias is a writ by which actions at law are frequently commenced; another is a writ of execution issued after judgment to satisfy damages recovered; a capias in criminal law is the process to take a person charged on an indictment, when he is not in custody. -- Burrill. Wharton.
CAPIAS, () practice. This word, the signification of which is "that you take," is applicable to many heads of practice. Several writs and processes, commanding the sheriff to take the person of the defendant, are known by the name of capias. For example: there are writs of capias ad respondendum, writs of capias ad computandum, writs of capias ad satisfaciendum, &c., each especially adapted to the purposes indicated by the words used for its designation. See 3 Bl. Com. 281; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2794.
Capibara (n.) (Zool.) See Capybara.
Capibara (n.) Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent [syn: capybara, capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris].
Capillaceous (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.
Capillaire (n.) A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
Capillaire (n.) Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.
Capillament (n.) (Bot.) A filament. [R.]
Capillament (n.) (Anat.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.
Capillariness (n.) The quality of being capillary.
Capillarity (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary.
Capillarity (n.) (Physics) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
Note: Capillarity depends upon the relative attaction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid, and is especially observable in capillary tubes, where it determines the ascent or descent of the liquid above or below the level of the liquid which the tube is dipped; -- hence the name.
Capillarity (n.) A phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries [syn: capillarity, capillary action].
Capillary (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
Capillary (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, The apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction.
Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.
Capillary (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
Capillary (n.) (Anat.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
Capillary (a.) Of or relating to hair.
Capillary (a.) Long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube" [syn: capillary, hairlike].
Capillary (n.) A tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action [syn: capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing].
Capillary (n.) Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules [syn: capillary, capillary vessel].
Capillation (n.) A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Capillature (n.) A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. -- Clarke.
Capilliform (a.) In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
Capillose (a.) Having much hair; hairy. [R.]
Capistrate (a.) (Zool.) Hooded; cowled.
Capital (n.) Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.]
Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. -- Milton.
Capital (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
Many crimes that are capital among us. -- Swift.
To put to death a capital offender. -- Milton.
Capital (n.) First in importance; chief; principal.
A capital article in religion. -- Atterbury.
Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. -- I. Taylor.
Capital (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
Capital (n.) Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.]
Capital letter [F, lettre capitale] (Print.), A leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing.
Small capital letters have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters.
Capital stock, money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. -- Abbott.
Syn: Chief; leading; controlling; prominent.
Capital (n.) (Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
Capital (n.) (Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" -- Macauly.
Capital (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
Capital (n.) (Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. -- M'Culloch.
Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). -- T. Raleigh.
Capital (n.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. -- London Times.
Capital (n.) (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
Capital (n.) A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.]
Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. -- Sir W. Scott.
Capital (n.) (Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Active capital. See under Active,
Small capital (Print.), A small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.
To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.
Capital
Small capital (a.) First-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea".
Small capital (a.) Of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat".
Small capital (a.) Uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great, majuscule].
Small capital (n.) Assets available for use in the production of further assets [syn: capital, working capital].
Small capital (n.) Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value.
Small capital (n.) A seat of government.
Small capital (n.) One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" [syn: capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant: lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter].
Small capital (n.) A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia".
Small capital (n.) The federal government of the United States [syn: Capital, Washington].
Small capital (n.) A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories [syn: Das Kapital, Capital].
Small capital (n.) The upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: capital, chapiter, cap].
Capital, () political economy, commerce. In political economy, it is that portion of the produce of a country, which may be made directly available either to support the human species or to the facilitating of production.
Capital, () In commerce, as applied to individuals, it is those objects, whether consisting of money or other property, which a merchant, trader, or other person adventures in an undertaking, or which he contributes to the common stock of a partnership. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1458.
Capital, () It signifies money put out at interest.
Capital, () The fund of a trading company or corporation is also called capital, but in this sense the word stock is generally added to it; thus we say the capital stock of the Bank of North America.
Capital, (n.) The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. _Capital Punishment_, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons – including all the assassins – entertain grave misgivings.
Capitalist (n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
The expenditure of the capitalist. -- Burke.
Capitalist (a.) Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists; "a capitalist nation"; "capitalistic methods and incentives" [syn: capitalist, capitalistic].
Capitalist (a.) Favoring or practicing capitalism [syn: capitalistic, capitalist] [ant: socialist, socialistic].
Capitalist (n.) A conservative advocate of capitalism.
Capitalist (n.) A person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business).
Capitalization (n.) The act or process of capitalizing.
Capitalization (n.) Writing in capital letters [syn: capitalization, capitalisation].
Capitalization (n.) An estimation of the value of a business [syn: capitalization, capitalisation].
Capitalization (n.) The act of capitalizing on an opportunity [syn: capitalization, capitalisation].
Capitalization (n.) The sale of capital stock [syn: capitalization, capitalisation].
Capitalized (imp. & p. p.) of Capitalize.
Capitalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capitalize.
Capitalize (v. t.) To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
Capitalize (v. t.) To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)
Capitalize (v. t.) To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
Capitalize (v. t.) To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock.
Capitalize (v.) Draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover" [syn: capitalize, capitalise, take advantage].
Capitalize (v.) Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders [syn: capitalize, capitalise].
Capitalize (v.) Write in capital letters [syn: capitalize, capitalise]
Capitalize (v.) Compute the present value of a business or an income [syn: capitalize, capitalise].
Capitalize (v.) Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses [syn: capitalize, capitalise].
Capitalize (v.) Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital [syn: capitalize, capitalise].
Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.
Capitally (adv.) In a capital manner; excellently. [Colloq.]
Capitalness (n.) The quality of being capital; preeminence. [R.]
Capitan Pasha or Capitan Pacha, () The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.
Capitate (a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
Capitate (a.) (Bot.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.
Capitate (a.) Being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip.
Capitate (n.) The wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus [syn: capitate, capitate bone, os capitatum].
Capitatim (a.) [NL.] Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.
Capitation (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Capitation (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.
Capitation (n.) A tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person.
Capitation. () A poll tax; an imposition which is yearly laid on each person according to his estate and ability.
Capitation. () The Constitution of the United States provides that "no capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census, or enumeration, therein before directed to be taken." Art. 1, s. 9, n. 4. See 3 Dall. 171; 5 Wheat. 317.
Capite (n.) See under Tenant.
CAPITE, () descents. By the head. Distribution or succession per capita, is said to take place when every one of the kindred in equal degree, and not jure representationis, receive an equal part of an estate.
Capitellate (a.) (Bot.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.
Compare: Tubicolae
Tubicolae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.
Capitibranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.
Capitol () The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.
Comes C[ae]sar to the Capitol to-morrow? -- Shak.
Capitol () The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse. Capitolian
Capitol (n.) A building occupied by a state legislature.
Capitol (n.) The government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet [syn: Capitol, Capitol Building].
Capitol Hill (n.) A hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets; "they are debating the budget today on Capitol Hill" [syn: Capitol Hill, the Hill].
Capitol hill (n.) 國會山莊（英語：Capitol Hill），是美國首都華盛頓哥倫比亞特區的一個街區（neighborhood），也是華盛頓特區內最大的聯邦歷史特定區（Federal historic districts），美國政府最高的權力象徵——美國國會大廈即座落於此。儘管地理上並不在華盛頓特區的中心，但是還是由於它的特殊地位而成為大家關注的焦點。
Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., and with roughly 35,000 people in just under 2 square miles (5 km2), it is also one of the most densely populated. [1]
As a geographic feature, Capitol Hill rises near the center of the District of Columbia and extends eastward. Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, as he began to develop his plan for the new federal capital city in 1791, chose to locate the "Congress House" (the Capitol building) on the crest of the hill at a site that he characterized as a "pedestal waiting for a monument". The Capitol building has been the home of the Congress of the United States and the workplace of many residents of the Capitol Hill neighborhood since 1800.
The Capitol Hill neighborhood today straddles two quadrants of the city, Southeast and Northeast. A large portion of the neighborhood is now designated as the Capitol Hill Historic District.
The name Capitol Hill is often used to refer to both the historic district and to the larger neighborhood around it. To the east of Capitol Hill lies the Anacostia River, to the north is the H Street corridor, to the south are the Southeast/ Southwest Freeway and the Washington Navy Yard, and to the west are the National Mall and the city's central business district.
The Capitol building is surrounded by the Capitol Hill Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The Capitol Hill Historic District was expanded in 2015 to the north to include the blocks bordered by 2nd Street, F Street, 4th Street, and just south of H Street, NE, collectively known as the Swampoodle Addition.
Capitolian (a.) Alt. of Capitoline.
Capitoline (a.) Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." -- Macaulay.
Capitoline games (Antiq.), Annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, after a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year.
Capitula (n. pl.) See Capitulum.
Capitular (n.) An act passed in a chapter.
Capitular (n.) A member of a chapter.
The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. -- Ayliffe.
Capitular (n.) The head or prominent part.
Capitular (a.) (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
From the pope to the member of the capitular body. -- Milman.