Capillation Cap`il·la"tion noun [ Latin capillatio the hair.] A capillary blood vessel. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Capillature Ca·pil"la·ture noun [ Latin capillatura .] A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

Capilliform Ca·pil"li·form adjective [ Latin capillus hair + -form .] In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

Capillose Cap"il·lose` adjective [ Latin capillosus .] Having much hair; hairy. [ R.]

Capistrate Ca·pis"trate adjective [ Latin capistratus , past participle of capistrare halter.] (Zoology) Hooded; cowled.

Capital Cap"i·tal adjective [ French capital , Latin capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), from caput head. See Chief , and confer Capital , noun ] 1. Of or pertaining to the head. [ Obsolete]

Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise
Expect with mortal pain.
Milton.

2. 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.

3. First in importance; chief; principal.

A capital article in religion
Atterbury.

Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity.
I. Taylor.

4. 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.

5. 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 Cap"i·tal noun [ Confer Latin capitellum and Capitulum , a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of caput head; French chapiteau , Old French capitel . See Chief , and confer Cattle , Chattel , Chapiter , Chapter .] 1. (Architecture) 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 .

2. [ Confer French capilate , fem., sc. ville .] (Geology) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital " Macauly.

3. [ Confer French capital .] 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 , adjective

4. (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.

» 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) amd circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). T. Raleigh.

5. 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.

6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [ Obsolete]

Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital .
Sir W. Scott.

8. (Print.) See Capital letter , under Capital , adjective

Active capital . See under Active , -- Small capital (Print.) , a small capital letter. See under Capital , adjective -- To live on one's capital , to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

Capitalist Cap"i·tal·ist noun [ Confer French capitaliste .] 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.

Capitalization Cap"i·tal·i·za`tion noun The act or process of capitalizing.

Capitalize Cap"i·tal·ize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Capitalized ; present participle & verbal noun Capitalizing .] 1. To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

2. To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)

3. To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.

Capitally Cap·i·tal·ly adverb 1. In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally .

2. In a capital manner; excellently. [ Colloq.]

Capitalness Cap"i·tal·ness noun The quality of being capital; preeminence. [ R.]

Capitan Pasha, Pacha Ca`pi·tan` Pa·sha`, Pa·cha` [ See capitan .] The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

Capitate Cap"i·tate adjective [ Latin capitatus from caput head.] 1. Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

2. (Botany) Having the flowers gathered into a head.

Capitatim Cap`i·ta"tim adjective [ New Latin ] Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.

Capitation Cap`i·ta"tion noun [ Latin capitatio a poll tax, from caput head; confer French capitation .] 1. A numbering of heads or individuals. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

2. A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.

Capite Cap"i·te noun [ Latin , abl. of caput head.] See under Tenant .

Capitellate Cap`i·tel"late adjective [ Latin capitellum , dim. of caput head.] (Botany) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

Capitibranchiata Cap`i·ti·bran`chi·a"ta noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin caput , capitis , head + -branchiae gills.] (Zoology) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola .

Capitol Cap"i·tol [ Latin capitolium , from caput head: confer French capitole . See Chief .]

1. The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.

Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to- morrow?
Shak.

2. 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, Capitoline Cap`i·to"li·an, Cap"i·to·line adjective [ Latin capitolinus : confer French capitolin .] Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. " Capitolian Jove." Macaulay.

Capitoline games (Antiq.) , annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year.

Capitula Ca·pit"u·la noun plural See Capitulum .

Capitular Ca·pit"u·lar noun [ Late Latin capitulare , capitularium , from Latin capitulum a small head, a chapter, dim. of capit head, chapter.] 1. An act passed in a chapter.

2. A member of a chapter.

The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars .
Ayliffe.

3. The head or prominent part.

Capitular Ca·pit"u·lar adjective 1. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.

From the pope to the member of the capitular body.
Milman.

2. (Botany) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.

3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.

Capitularly Ca·pit"u·lar·ly adverb In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

Capitulary Ca·pit"u·la·ry noun ; plural Capitularies . [ See Capitular .] 1. A capitular.

2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

3. 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 Ca·pit"u·la·ry adjective Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. " Capitulary acts." Warton.

Capitulate Ca·pit"u·late intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Capitulated ; present participle & verbal noun Capitulating .] [ Late Latin capitulatus , past participle of capitulare to capitulate: confer French capituler . See Capitular , noun ] 1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [ Obsolete]

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.

2. 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 Ca·pit"u·late transitive verb To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [ R.]

Capitulation Ca·pit`u·la"tion noun [ Confer French capitulation , Late Latin capitulatio .] 1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.

With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify.
Bp. Burnet.

2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.

3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.

Capitulator Ca·pit"u·la`tor noun [ Late Latin ] One who capitulates.

Capitule Cap"i·tule noun [ Latin capitulum small head, chapter.] A summary. [ Obsolete]

Capitulum Ca·pit"u·lum noun ; plural Capitula [ Latin , a small head.] 1. 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.

2. (Anat.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [ See Illust. of Artiodactyla .]

Capivi Ca·pi"vi noun [ Confer Copaiba .] A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba .

Caple Ca"ple noun See Capel .

Caplin Cap"lin noun See Capelin .

Caplin, Capling Cap"lin, Cap"ling noun The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel. Wright.

Capnomancy Cap"no·man`cy noun [ Greek ... smoke + mancy : confer French capnomancie .] Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.

Capnomor Cap"no·mor noun [ Greek ... smoke + ..., equiv. to ... part.] (Chemistry) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts.

Capo tasto Ca"po tas"to [ Italian capotasto .] (Music) A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.

Capoc Ca·poc" noun [ Malay kāpoq .] 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.

Capoch Ca·poch" noun ; plural Capoches . [ Confer Spanish capucho , Italian cappucio , French Capuce , capuchon , Late Latin caputium , from capa cloak. See Cap .] A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

Capoch Ca·poch" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Capoched .] To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. Hudibras.

Capon Ca"pon (kā"p'n or kā"pŭn; 277) noun [ Middle English capon , chapoun , Anglo-Saxon capūn (cf. French chapon ), Latin capo , from Greek ka`pwn akin to ko`ptein to cut, OSlav. skopiti to castrate. Confer Comma .] A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak.

The merry thought of a capon .
W. Irving.

Capon Ca"pon transitive verb To castrate; to make a capon of.

Caponet Ca"pon·et noun A young capon. [ R.] Chapman.

Caponiere Cap`o·niere" noun [ French caponnière , from Spanish caponera , orig., a cage for fattening capons, hence, a place of refuge; confer Italian capponiera . See Capon .] (Fort.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

Caponize Ca"pon·ize transitive verb To castrate, as a fowl.

Caporal Ca`po·ral" (kä`po*räl") noun [ Spanish See Corporal , noun ] One who directs work; an overseer. [ Spanish Amer.]

Capot Ca·pot" noun [ French] A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

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