Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 16
Capitular (a.) (Bot.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
Capitular (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.
Capitular (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter; "capitular estates" [syn: capitular, capitulary].
Capitularly (adv.) In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. -- Sterne.
Capitularies (n. pl. ) of Capitulary.
Capitulary (n.) A capitular.
Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.
Several of Charlemagne's capitularies. -- Hallam.
Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. "Capitulary acts." -- Warton.
Capitulary (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter; "capitular estates" [syn: capitular, capitulary].
Capitulated (imp. & p. p.) of Capitulate.
Capitulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capitulate.
Capitulate (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.]
There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. -- Heylin.
There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. -- Trench.
Capitulate (n.) To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. -- Macaulay.
Capitulate (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [R.]
Capitulate (v.) Surrender under agreed conditions.
Capitulation (n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. -- Bp. Burnet.
Capitulation (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
Capitulation (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
Capitulation (n.) A document containing the terms of surrender.
Capitulation (n.) A summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic.
Capitulation (n.) The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, fall, surrender].
Capitulation, () war. The treaty which determines the conditions under which a fortified place is abandoned to the commanding officer of the army which besieges it.
Capitulation, () On surrender by capitulation, all the property of the inhabitants protected by the articles, is considered by the law of nations as neutral, and not subject to capture on the high seas, by the belligerent or its ally. 2 Dall.
Capitulation, () civ.law. An agreement by which the prince and the people, or those who have the right of. the people, regulate the manner in which the government is to be administered. Wolff, Sec. 989.
Capitulator (n.) [LL.] One who capitulates.
Capitule (n.) A summary. [Obs.]
Capitulum (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. -- Gray.
Capitulum (n.) (Anat.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage.
Note: [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
Capitulum (n.) A dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum, head].
Capitulum (n.) Fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn [syn: ear, spike, capitulum].
Capitulum (n.) An arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree.
Copaiba, Copaiva (n.) (Med.) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and was formerly much used in affections of the mucous membranes. It is also used in varnishes and lacquers, and in cleaning oil paintings. -- called also balsam of copaiba, copaiba balsam, balsam capivi, and Jesuits' resin. [Written also capivi.]
Capivi (n.) A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.
Caple (n.) See Capel.
Capel, Caple (n.) A horse; a nag. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Holland.
Caplin (n.) See Capelin. Caplin
Caplin (n.) Alt. of Capling.
Capling (n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel. -- Wright.
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).
Caplin (n.) Very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes [syn: capelin, capelan, caplin].
Capnomancy (n.) Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.
Capnomor (n.) (Chem.) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. --Watts.
Capoc (n.) A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.
Capoches (n. pl. ) of Capoch.
Capoch (n.) A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.
Capoched (imp. & p. p.) of Capoch.
Capoch (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. -- Hudibras.
Capon (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.
Capon (v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of.
Caponet (n.) A young capon.
Caponiere (n.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
Caponize (v. t.) To castrate, as a fowl.
Capot (n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.
Capotted (imp. & p. p.) of Capot.
Capot (v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.
Capote (n.) A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.
Capouch (n. & v. t.) Same as Capoch.
Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.
Cappaper () See cap, n., also Paper, n.
Cappeak (n.) The front piece of a cap; -- now more commonly called visor.
Cappella (n.) See A cappella.
Capper (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps.
Capper (n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].
Capper (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.
Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
Capra (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the common goat.
Caprate (n.) A salt of capric acid.
Capreolate (a.) Having a tendril or tendrils.
Capreoline (a.) Of or pertaining to the roebuck.
Capri (n.) 卡布里島，又譯卡布里島，義大利那不勒斯灣南部，蘇連多半島外的一個小島，自從羅馬共和國時代以來就以風景秀麗聞名，是著名的旅遊勝地。卡布里屬於坎帕尼亞大區的那不勒斯省。卡布里市是島上主要的人口中心。人口2004年底統計為7278人。
無論對義大利人還是對外國人，卡布里都是旅遊目的地。在1950年代的每年夏季，該島遊客眾多。島上最著名的景點有藍洞。
卡布里有班次頻密的渡輪和水翼艇前往那不勒斯和蘇連多。 Is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town Capri that is located on the island shares the name. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic. The first Capri-Sun was consumed here in 1986 before the name was formally given to the beverage.
Some of the main features of the island include the following: the Marina Piccola (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara (a high panoramic promenade lined with villas), the limestone crags called sea stacks that project above the sea (the Faraglioni), the town of Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), and the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas.
Capri is part of the region of Campania, Province of Naples. The town of Capri is the island's main population centre. The island has two harbours, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande (the main port of the island). The separate comune of Anacapri is located high on the hills to the west.
Capric (a.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.
Cariccio (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.
Cariccio (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy.
Capricioso (a.) In a free, fantastic style.
Caprice (v. i.) An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
Caprice (v. i.) See Capriccio.
Capricious (a.) 善變的；任性的 Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." -- Shak. "Capricious humor." -- Hugh Miller.
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. -- Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary. -- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
Capricious (a.) Changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious, freakish].
Capricious (a.) Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions" [syn: capricious, impulsive, whimsical].
Capricorn (n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
Capricorn (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.
Caprid (a.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.
Caprification (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.
Caprifole (n.) The woodbine or honeysuckle.
Caprifoliaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae.
Capriform (a.) Having the form of a goat.
Caprigenous (a.) Of the goat kind.
Caprine (a.) Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.
Capriole (v. i.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
Capriole (v. i.) A leap or caper, as in dancing.
Capriole (v. i.) To perform a capriole.
Capriped (a.) Having feet like those of a goat.
Caproate (n.) A salt of caproic acid.
Caproic (a.) See under Capric.
Caprylate (n.) A salt of caprylic acid.
Caprylic (a.) See under Capric.
Capsaicin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.
Capsheaf (n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.
Capsicin (n.) A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.
Capsicine (n.) A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin.
Capsicum (n.) A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.
Capsized (imp. & p. p.) of Capsize.
Capsizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capsize.
Capsize (v. t. & i.) (v. t.) 使傾覆；弄翻；(v. i.) 傾覆；翻覆 To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.
But what if carrying sail capsize the boat? -- Byron.
Capsize (n.) An upset or overturn.
Capsize (v.) Overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!" [syn: {capsize}, {turtle}, {turn turtle}].
Capsize (v.) [ I or T ] （使船）翻，傾覆 To (cause a boat or ship to) turn upside down by accident while on water.
// A huge wave capsized the yacht.
// When the boat capsized we were trapped underneath it.
Capsquare (n.) A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
Capstone (n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
Capsular (a.) Alt. of Capsulary.
Capsulary (a.) Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.
Capsulate (a.) Alt. of Capsulated.
Capsulated (a.) Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.
Capsule (n.) (Bot.) 膠囊，蒴，瓶帽，太空艙 A dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.
Capsule (n.) (Chem.) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
Capsule (n.) (Chem.) A small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
Capsule (n.) (Med.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
Capsule (n.) (Anat.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.
Capsule (n.) A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle.