Canker – Caracoly

Canker

CANKER, noun

1. A disease incident to trees, which causes the bark to rot and fall.

2. A popular name of certain small eroding ulcers in the mouth, particularly of children. They are generally covered with a whitish slough.

3. A virulent, corroding ulcer; or any thing that corrodes, corrupts or destroys.

Sacrilege may prove an eating canker

And their word will eat as doth a canker Tim. 2.

4. An eating, corroding, virulent humor; corrosion.

5. A kind of rose, the dog rose.

6. In farriery, a running thrush of the worst kind; a disease in horses feet, discharging a fetid matter from the cleft in the middle of the frog.

CANKER, verb intransitive To grow corrupt; to decay, or waste away by means of any noxious cause; to grow rusty, or to be oxydized, as a metal.

Canker-Fly

CANKER-FLY, noun A fly that preys on fruit.

Canker-Like

CANKER-LIKE, adjective Eating or corrupting like a canker.

Canker-Worm

CANKER-WORM, noun A worm, destructive to trees or plants. In America, this name is given to a worm that, in some years, destroys the leaves and fruit of apple trees. This animal springs from an egg deposited by a miller, that issues from the ground.

Cankerbit

CANKERBIT, adjective Bitten with a cankered or envenomed tooth.

Cankered

CANKERED, participle passive

1. Corrupted.

2. adjective Crabbed; uncivil.

Cankeredly

CANKEREDLY, adverb Crossly; adversely.

Cankerous

CANKEROUS, adjective Corroding like a canker.

Cankery

CANKERY, adjective Rusty

Cannabine

CANNABINE, adjective Pertaining to hemp; hempen.

Cannel-Coal

CANNEL-COAL or CANDLE-COAL, noun A hard, opake, inflammable fossil coal of a black color, sufficiently solid to be cut and polished. On fire it decrepitates and breaks into angular fragments. It is sometimes used for inkholders and toys.

Cannequin

CANNEQUIN, noun White cotton cloth from the East Indies, suitable for the Guinea trade.

Cannibal

CANNIBAL, noun A human being that east human flesh; a man-eater, or anthropophagite.

Cannibalism

CANNIBALISM, noun

1. The act or practice of eating human flesh, by mankind.

2. Murderous cruelty; barbarity.

Cannibally

CANNIBALLY, adverb In the manner of a cannibal.

Cannon

CANNON, noun A large military engine for throwing balls, and other instruments of death, by the force of gun powder. Guns of this kind are made of iron or brass and of different sizes, carrying balls from three or four pounds, to forty eight pounds weight. In some countries, they have been made of much larger size. The smaller guns of this kind are called field pieces.

Cannon-Ball

CANNON-BALL, noun A ball, usually made of cast iron, to be thrown from cannon. Cannon bullet, of the like signification, is not now used. Cannon balls were originally of stone.

Cannon-Proof

CANNON-PROOF, adjective Proof against cannon shot.

Cannon-Shot

CANNON-SHOT, noun A ball for cannon; also, the range or distance a cannon will throw a ball.

Cannonade

CANNONADE, noun The act of discharging cannon and throwing balls, for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship or fort. The term usually implies an attack of some continuance.

CANNONADE, verb transitive To attack with heavy artillery; to throw balls, or other deadly weapons, as chain-shot or langrage, against an enemys army, town, fortress or ship; to batter with cannon shot.

CANNONADE, verb intransitive To discharge cannon; to play with large guns.

Cannoneer

CANNONEER,

CANINE, noun A man who manages cannon; an engineer.

Cannot

CANNOT, [can and not.] These words are usually united, but perhaps without good reason; canst and not are never united.

Cannular

CANNULAR, adjective Tubular; having the form of a tube.

Canoe

CANOE, noun

1. A boat used by rude nations, formed of the body or trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting or burning, into a suitable shape. Similar boats are now used by civilized men, for fishing and other purposes. It is impelled by a paddle, instead of an oar.

2. A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.

Canon

CANON, noun

1. In ecclesiastical affairs, a law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the sovereign; a decision of matters in religion, or a regulation of policy or discipline, by a general or provincial council.

2. A law or rule in general.

3. The genuine books of the Holy Scriptures, called the sacred cannon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration.

4. A dignitary of the church; a person who possesses a prebend or revenue allotted for the performance of divine service in a cathedral or collegiate church.

A cardinal canon is one attached to a church, incardinatus, as a priest to a parish.

Domicellary canons, are young canons, not in orders, having no right in any particular chapters.

Expectative canons, having no revenue or prebend, but having the title and dignities of canons, a voice in the chapter and a place in the choir, till a prebend should fall.

Foreign canons, such as did not officiate in their canonries; opposed to mansionary or residentiary canons.

Lay, secular or honorary canons, laymen admitted out of honor or respect, into some chapter of canons.

Regular canons, who live in monasteries or in community, and who, to the practice of their rules, have added the profession of vows.

Tertiary canons, who have only the third part of the revenue of the canonicate.

5. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of the order.

6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Romish Church.

7. The secret words of the mass from the preface to the Pater, in the middle of which the priest consecrates the host. The people are to rehearse this part of the service, on their knees, and in a voice lower than can be heard.

8. In ancient music, a rule or method for determining the intervals of notes, invented by Ptolemy.

9. In modern music, a kind of perpetual fugue, in which the different parts, beginning one after another, repeat incessantly the same air.

10. In geometry and algebra, a general rule for the solution of cases of a like nature with the present inquiry. Every last step of an equation is a canon

11. In pharmacy, a rule for compounding medicines.

12. In surgery, an instrument used in sewing up wounds.

CANON-law, is a collection of ecclesiastical laws, serving as the rule of church government.

Canon-Bit

CANON-BIT, noun That part of a bit let into a horses mouth.

Canoness

CANONESS, noun A woman who enjoys a prebend, affixed, by the foundation, to maids, without obliging them to make any vows or renounce the world.

Canonical

CANONICAL, adjective Pertaining to a canon; according to the canon or rule.

CANONICAL books or canonical scriptures, are those books of the scriptures which are admitted by the canons of the church, to be of divine origin. The Roman catholic church admits the Apocryphal books to be canonical; the Protestants reject them.

CANONICAL hours, are certain stated times of the day, fixed by the ecclesiastical laws, or appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion. In Great Britain, these hours are from eight oclock to twelve in the forenoon, before and after which marriage cannot be legally performed in the church.

CANONICAL obedience, is submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and other religious orders to their superiors.

CANONICAL punishments, are such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.

CANONICAL life, is the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community, a course of living prescribed for clerks, less rigid than the monastic and more restrained than the secular.

CANONICAL sins, in the ancient church, were those for which capital punishment was inflicted; as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy, etc.

CANONICAL letters, anciently, were letters which passed between the orthodox clergy, as testimonials of their faith, to keep up the catholic communion, and to distinguish them from heretics.

CANONICAL epistles, is an appellation given to those epistles of the New Testament which are called general or catholic.

Canonically

CANONICALLY, adverb In a manner agreeable to the canon.

Canonicalness

CANONICALNESS, noun The quality of being canonical.

Canonicals

CANONICALS, noun plural The full dress of the clergy, worn when they officiate.

Canonicate

CANONICATE, noun The office of a canon.

Canonist

CANONIST, noun A professor of cannon law; one skilled in the study and practice of ecclesiastical law.

Canonistic

CANONISTIC, adjective Having the knowledge of a canonist.

Canonization

CANONIZATION, noun [See Canonize.]

1. The act of declaring a man a saint, or rather the act of ranking a deceased person in the catalogue of saints, called a canon. This act is preceded by beatification, and by an examination into the life and miracles of the person; after which the Pope decrees the canonization

2. The state of being sainted.

Canonize

CANONIZE, verb transitive [from canon.] To declare a man a saint and rank him in the catalogue, called a canon.

Canonry

CANONRY,

CANONSHIP, noun An ecclesiastical benefice, in a cathedral or collegiate church, which has a prebend or stated allowance out of the revenues of the church commonly annexed to it. The benifice filled by a canon. A prebend may subsist without a canonry; but a canonicate is inseparable from a prebend.

Canopied

CANOPIED, adjective [See Canopy.] Covered with a canopy.

Canopy

CANOPY, noun

1. A covering over a throne, or over a bed; more generally, a covering over the head. So the sky is called a canopy and a canopy is borne over the head in processions.

2. In architecture and sculpture, a magnificent decoration serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair or the like.

CANOPY, verb transitive To cover with a canopy

Canorous

CANOROUS, adjective Musical; tuneful.

Canorousness

CANOROUSNESS, noun Musicalness.

Cant

CANT, verb transitive

1. In popular usage, to turn about, or to turn over, by a sudden push or thrust; as, to cant over a pail or a cask.

2. To toss; as, to cant a ball.

3. To speak with a whining voice, or an affected singing tone.

[In this sense, it is usually intransitive.]

4. To sell by auction, or to bid a price at auction.

CANT, noun

1. A toss; a throw, thrust or push with a sudden jerk; as, to give a ball a cant [This is the literal sense.]

2. A whining, singing manner of speech; a quaint, affected mode of uttering words either in conversation or preaching.

3. The whining speech of beggars, as in asking alms and making complaints of their distresses.

4. The peculiar words and phrases of professional men; phrases often repeated, or not well authorized.

5. Any barbarous jargon in speech.

6. Whining pretension to goodness.

7. Outcry, at a public sale of goods; a call for bidders at an auction.

This use of the word is precisely equivalent to auction, auctio, a hawking, a crying out, or in the vulgar dialect, a singing out, but I believe not in use in the U. States.

CANT, noun A nich; a corner or retired place.

CANT-timbers, in a ship, are those which are situated at the two ends.

Cantabrian

CANTABRIAN, adjective Pertaining to Cantabria, on the Bay of Biscay, in Spain.

Cantaliver

CANTALIVER, noun [cantle and eaves.] In architecture, a piece of wood, framed into the front or side of a house, to suspend the moldings and eaves over it.

Cantar

CANTAR,

CANTARO, noun An eastern weight; at Acra in Turkey, 603 pounds; at Tunis and Tripoli, 114 pounds, In Egypt, it consists of 100 or 150 rotolos; at Naples, it is 25 pounds; at Genoa, 150; at Leghorn, 150, 151, Ruth 160:1.

At Alicant in Spain, the cantaro is a liquid measure of 3 gallons. In Cochin, a measure of capacity, of 4 rubies; the rubi, 32 rotolos.

Cantaro

CANTARO, n. An eastern weight; at Acra in Turkey, 603 pounds; at Tunis and Tripoli, 114 pounds, In Egypt, it consists of 100 or 150 rotolos; at Naples, it is 25 pounds; at Genoa, 150; at Leghorn, 150, 151, 0r 160. At Alicant in Spain, the cantaro is a liquid measure of 3 gallons. In Cochin, a measure of capacity, of 4 rubies; the rubi, 32 rotolos.

Cantata

CANTATA, noun A poem set to music; a composition or song, intermixed with recitatives and airs, chiefly intended for a single voice.

Cantation

CANTATION, adjective A singing.

Canteen

CANTEEN, noun A tin vessel used by soldiers for carrying liquor for drink.

Canteleup

CANTELEUP, noun A variety of muskmelon.

Canter

CANTER, verb intransitive To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.

CANTER, verb transitive To ride upon a canter

CANTER, noun

1. A moderate gallop.

2. One who cants or whines.

CANTERBURY BELL, noun A species of campanula. [See Bell-Flower.]

CANTERBURY TALE, noun A fabulous story; so called from the tales of Chaucer.

Cantering

CANTERING, participle present tense Moving or riding with a slow gallop.

Cantharidin

CANTHARIDIN, noun That peculiar substance existing in the Meloe vesicatorius, or cantharides, which causes vesication.

Cantharis

CANTHARIS or plural CANTHARIDES, noun Spanish flies; a species of Meloe. This fly is nine or ten lines in length, of a shining green color, mixed with azure, and has a nauseous smell. It feeds upon the leaves of trees and shrubs, preferring the ash. These flies, when bruised, are universally used as a vesicatory, or blistering plaster. The largest come from Italy, but the best from Spain.

Canthus

CANTHUS, noun An angle of the eye; a cavity at the extremities of the eyelids; the greater is next to the nose; the lesser, near the temple.

Canticle

CANTICLE, noun

1. A song. In the plural, canticles, the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.

2. A canto; a division of a song.

Cantillate

CANTILLATE, verb transitive To chant; to recite with musical tones.

Cantillation

CANTILLATION, noun A chanting; recitation with musical modulations.

Canting

CANTING, participle present tense

1. Throwing with a sudden jerk; tossing.

2. Speaking with a whine or song-like tone.

Cantingly

CANTINGLY, adverb With a cant.

Cantion

CANTION, noun A song or verses.

Cantle

CANTLE, noun A fragment; a piece; a portion.

CANTLE, verb transitive To cut into pieces; to cut out a piece.

Cantlet

CANTLET, noun A piece; a little corner; a fragment.

Canto

CANTO, noun A part or division of a poem, answering to what in prose is called a book. In Italian, canto is a song, and it signifies also the treble part, first treble, or highest vocal part.

Canton

CANTON, noun

1. A small portion of land, or division of territory; originally, a portion of territory on a border; also, the inhabitants of a canton

2. A small portion or district of territory, constituting a distinct state or government; as in Switzerland.

3. In heraldry, a corner of the shield.

4. A distinct part, or division; as the cantons of a painting or other representation.

Cantonal

CANTONAL, adjective Pertaining to a canton; divided into cantons.

Cantoned

CANTONED, participle passive Divided into distinct parts, or quarters; lodged in distinct quarters, as troops.

Cantoning

CANTONING, participle present tense Dividing into distinct districts; allotting separate quarters to each regiment.

Cantonize

CANTONIZE, verb transitive To canton, or divide into small districts.

Cantonment

CANTONMENT, noun A part or division of a town or village, assigned to a particular regiment of troops; separate quarters.

Cantred

CANTRED,

CANTREF, noun A hundred villages, as in Wales.

Cantref

CANTREF, n. A hundred villages, as in Wales.

Canvas

CANVAS, noun

1. A coarse cloth made of hemp, or flax, used for tents, sails of ships, painting and other purposes.

2. A clear unbleached cloth, wove regularly in little squares, used for working tapestry with the needle.

3. Among the French, the rough draught or model on which an air or piece of music is composed, and given to a poet to finish. The canvas of a song contains certain notes of the composer, to show the poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

4. Among seamen, cloth in sails, or sails in general; as, to spread as much canvas as the ship will bear.

Canvas-Climber

CANVAS-CLIMBER, noun A sailor that goes aloft to handle sails.

Canvass

CANVASS, verb transitive

1. To discuss; literally, to beat or shake out, to open by beating or shaking, like the Latin Discutio. This is the common use of the word, as to canvass a subject, or the policy of a measure.

2. To examine returns of votes; to search or scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes for senators.

CANVASS, verb intransitive

1. To seek or go about to solicit votes or interest; to use efforts to obtain; to make interest in favor of; followed by for; as, to canvass for an office, or preferment; to canvass for a friend.

CANVASS, noun

1. Examination; close inspection to know the state of; as a canvass of votes.

2. Discussion; debate

3. A seeking, solicitation, or efforts to obtain.

Canvassed

CANVASSED, participle passive Discussed; examined.

Canvasser

CANVASSER, noun

1. One who solicits votes, or goes about to make interest.

2. One who examines the returns of votes for a public officer.

Canvassing

CANVASSING, participle present tense Discussing; examining; sifting; seeking.

CANVASSING, noun The act of discussing, examining, or making interest.

Cany

CANY, adjective [from cane.] Consisting of cane, or abounding with canes.

Canzone

CANZONE, noun A song or air in two or three parts, with passages of fugue and imitation; or a poem to which music may be composed in the style of a cantata. When set to a piece of instrumental music, it signifies much the same as cantata; and when set to a sonata, it signifies allegro, or a brisk movement.

Canzonet

CANZONET, noun A little or short song, in one, two or three parts. It sometimes consists of two strains, each of which is sung twice. Sometimes it is a species of jig.

Cap

CAP, noun

1. A part of dress made to cover the head.

2. The ensign of a cardinalate.

3. The top, or the uppermost; the highest.

Thou art the cap of fools.

4. A vessel in form of a cap

5. An act of respect, made by uncovering the head.

CAP of cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.

CAP of maintenance, an ornament of state, carried before the Kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.

In ship-building, a cap is a thick strong block of wood, used to confine two masts together, when one is erected at the head of another.

CAP, VT

1. To cover the top, or end; to spread over; as, a bone is capped at the joint with a cartilaginous substance.

The cloud-capped towers.

2. To deprive of the cap or take off a cap

To cap verses, is to name alternately verses beginning with a particular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest.

CAP, verb intransitive To uncover the head in reverence or civility.

CAP-a-pie, From head to foot; all over; as, armed cap-a-pie.

CAP-paper, noun A coarse paper, so called from being used to make caps to hold commodities.

CAP-sheaf, noun The top sheaf of a stack of grain; the crowner.

Capability

CAPABILITY, noun [See Capable.] The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness.

Capable

CAPABLE, adjective

1. Able to hold or contain; able to receive; sufficiently capacious; often followed by of; as, the room is not capable of receiving, or capable of holding the company.

2. Endued with power competent to the object; as, a man is capable of judging, or he is not capable

3. Possessing mental powers; intelligent; able to understand, or receive into the mind; having a capacious mind; as a capable judge; a capable instructor.

4. Susceptible; as, capable of pain or grief.

5. Qualified for; susceptible of; as, a thing is capable of long duration; or it is capable of being colored or altered.

6. Qualified for, in a moral sense; having legal power or capacity; as, a bastard is not capable of inheriting an estate.

7. Hollow.

Capableness

CAPABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being capable; capacity; power of understanding; knowledge.

Capacify

CAPACIFY, verb transitive To qualify.

Capacious

CAPACIOUS, adjective

1. Wide; large; that will hold much; as a capacious vessel.

2. Broad; extensive; as a capacious bay or harbor.

3. Extensive; comprehensive; able to take a wide view; as a capacious mind.

Capaciousness

CAPACIOUSNESS, noun

1. Wideness; largeness; as of a vessel.

2. Extensiveness; largeness; as of a bay.

3. Comprehensiveness; power of taking a wide survey; applied to the mind.

Capacitate

CAPACITATE, verb transitive [See Capacity.]

1. To make capable; to enable; to furnish with natural power; as, to capacitate one for understanding a theorem.

2. To endue with moral qualifications; to qualify; to furnish with legal powers; as, to capacitate one for an office.

Capacitated

CAPACITATED, participle passive Made capable; qualified.

Capacitation

CAPACITATION, noun The act of making capable.

Capacity

CAPACITY, noun

1. Passive power; the power of containing, or holding; extent of room or space; as the capacity of a vessel, or a cask.

2. The extent or comprehensiveness of the mind; the power of receiving ideas or knowledge.

Let instruction be adapted to the capacities of youth.

3. Active power; ability; applied to men or things; but less common, and correct.

The world does not include a cause endued with such capacities.

4. State; condition; character; profession; occupation. A man may act in the capacity of a mechanic, of a friend, of an attorney, or of a statesman. He may have a natural or a political capacity

5. Ability, in a moral or legal sense; qualification; legal power or right; as, a man or a corporation may have a capacity to give or receive and hold estate.

6. In geometry, the solid contents of a body.

7. In chimistry, that state, quality or constitution of bodies, by which they absorb and contain, or render latent, any fluid; as the capacity of water for caloric.

Caparison

CAPARISON, noun A cloth or covering laid over the saddle or furniture of a horse, especially a sumpter horse or horse of state.

CAPARISON, verb transitive

1. To cover with a cloth.

2. To dress pompously; to adorn with rich dress.

Capcase

CAPCASE, noun A covered case.

Cape

CAPE, noun

1. A head land; properly the head, point or termination of a neck of land, extending some distance into the sea, beyond the common shore, and hence the name is applied to the neck of land itself, indefinitely, as in Cape-Cod, Cape-Horn, cape of Good Hope. It differs from a promontory in this, that it may be high or low land; but a promontory is a high bold termination of a neck of land.

2. The neck-piece of a cloke or coat.

Capelan

CAPELAN, noun A small fish, about six inches in length, sholes of which appear off the coasts of Greenland, Iceland and New-foundland. They constitute a large part of the food of the Greenlanders.

Capella

CAPELLA, noun A bright fixed star in the left shoulder of the constellation Auriga.

Capellet

CAPELLET, noun A kind of swelling, like a wen, growing on the heel of the hock on a horse, and on the point of the elbow.

Caper

CAPER, verb intransitive To leap; to skip or jump; to prance; to spring.

CAPER, noun A leap; a skip; a spring; as in dancing or mirth, or in the frolick of a goat or lamb.

CAPER, noun The bud of the caper-bush, which is much used for pickling. The buds are collected before the flowers expand, and preserved in vinegar. The bush is a low shrub, generally growing from the joints of old walls, from fissures in rocks and amongst rubbish, in the southern parts of Europe.

Caper-Bush

CAPER-BUSH. [See Caper.]

Caper-Cutting

CAPER-CUTTING, noun A leaping or dancing in a frolicksome manner.

Caperer

CAPERER, noun One who capers, leaps and skips about, or dances.

Capering

CAPERING, participle present tense Leaping; skipping.

Capias

CAPIAS, noun In law, a writ of two sorts; one before judgment, called a capias ad respondendum, where an original is issued, to take the defendant, and make him answer to the plaintiff; the other, which issues after judgment, is of divers kinds; as a capias ad satisfaciendum, or writ of execution; a capias pro fine; a capias utlagatum; a capias in withernam.

Capibar

CAPIBAR, noun An animal partaking of the form of a hog and of a rabbit, the cabiai.

Capillaceous

CAPILLACEOUS, adjective Hairy; resembling a hair. [See Capillary.]

Capillaire

CAPILLAIRE, noun A kind of sirrup, extracted rom maiden-hair.

Capillament

CAPILLAMENT, noun

1. The filament, a small fine thread, like a hair, that grows in the middle of a flower, with a little knob at the top; a chive.

2. A FINE FIBER, OR FILAMENT, OF WHICH THE NERVES ARE COMPOSED.

Capillary

CAPILLARY, adjective

1. Resembling a hair, fine, minute, small in diameter, though long; as a capillary tube or pipe; a capillary vessel in animal bodies, such as the ramifications of the blood vessels.

2. In botany, capillary plants are hair-shaped, as the ferns; a term used by Ray, Boerhaave and Morison. This class of plants corresponds to the order of Filices, in the Sexual method, which bear their flower and fruit on the back of the leaf or stalk.

This term is applied also to leaves which are longer than the setaceous or bristle-shaped leaf, to glands resembling hairs, to the filaments, to the style, and to the pappus or down affixed to some seeds.

CAPILLARY, noun A fine vessel or canal.

Capillation

CAPILLATION, noun A blood vessel like a hair.

Capilliform

CAPILLIFORM, adjective In the shape or form of a hair, or of hairs.

Capital

CAPITAL, adjective

1. Literally, pertaining to the head; as a capital bruise, in Milton, a bruise on the head.

2. Figuratively, as the head is the highest part of a man, chief; principal; first in importance; as a capital city or town; the capital articles of religion.

3. Punishable by loss of the head or of life; incurring the forfeiture of life; punishable with death; as, treason and murder are capital offenses or crimes.

4. Taking away life, as a capital punishment; or affecting life, as a capital trial.

5. Great, important, though perhaps not chief; as, a town possesses capital advantages for trade.

6. Large; of great size; as capital letters, which are of different form, and larger than common letters.

CAPITAL stock, is the sum of money or stock which a merchant, banker or manufacturer employs in his business; either the original stock, or that stock augmented. Also, the sum of money or stock which each partner contributes to the joint fund or stock of the partnership; also, the common fund or stock of the company, whether incorporated or not.

A capital city or town is the metropolis or chief city of an empire, kingdom, state or province. The application of the epithet indicates the city to be the largest, or to be the seat of government, or both. In many instances, the capital that is, the largest city, is not the seat of government.

CAPITAL, noun The uppermost part of a column, pillar or pilaster, serving as the head or crowning, and placed immediately over the shaft, and under the entablature.

By the customary omission of the noun, to which the adjective, capital refers, it stand for,

1. The chief city or town in a kingdom or state; a metropolis.

2. A large letter or type, in printing.

3. A stock in trade, in manufactures, or in any business requiring the expenditure of money with a view to profit.

Capitalist

CAPITALIST, noun A man who has a capital or stock in trade, usually denoting a man of large property, which is or may be employed in business.

Capitally

CAPITALLY, adverb

1. In a capital manner; nobly; finely.

2. With loss of life; as, to punish capitally

Capitalness

CAPITALNESS, noun A capital offense.

Capitate

CAPITATE, adjective In botany, growing in a head, applied to a flower, or stigma.

Capitation

CAPITATION, noun

1. Numeration by the head; a numbering of persons.

2. A tax, or imposition upon each head or person; a poll-tax. Sometimes written Capitation-tax.

Capite

CAPITE. In English law, a tenant in capite or in chief, is one who holds lands immediately of the king, caput, the head or Lord Paramount of all lands in the kingdom, by knights service or by soccage. This tenure is called tenure in capite; but it was abolished in England, by 12 Charles II. 24.

Capitol

CAPITOL, noun

1. The temple of Jupiter in Rome, and a fort or castle, on the Mons Capitolinus. In this, the Senate of Rome anciently assembled; and on the same place, is still the city hall or town-house, where the conservators of the Romans hold their meetings. The same name was given to the principal temples of the Romans in their colonies.

2. The edifice occupied by the Congress of the United States in their deliberations. In some states, the State-house, or house in which the legislature holds its sessions; a government house.

Capitolian

CAPITOLIAN, adjective Pertaining to the capitol in Rome.

Capitoline

CAPITOLINE, adjective Pertaining to the capitol in Rome. The capitoline Games were annual games instituted by Camillus in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, and in commemoration of the preservation of the capitol from the Gauls, and other games instituted by Domitian and celebrated every five years.

Capitular

CAPITULAR,

CAPITULARLY, adverb In the form of an ecclesiastical chapter.

CAPITULARY, adjective Relating to the chapter of a cathedral.

Capitularly

CAPITULARLY, adv. In the form of an ecclesiastical chapter.

Capitulary

CAPITULARY, noun

1. An act passed in a chapter, either of knights, canons or religious.

2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council. This name is also given to the laws, civil and ecclesiastical, made by Charlemagne, and other princes, in general councils and assemblies of the people. Some indeed have alledged that these are supplements to laws. They are so called, because they are divided into chapters or sections.

3. The member of a chapter.

Capitulate

CAPITULATE, verb intransitive

1. To draw up a writing in chapters, heads or articles. [But this sense is not usual.]

2. To surrender, as an army or garrison, to an enemy, by treaty, in which the terms of surrender are specified and agreed to by the parties. The term is applicable to a garrison or to the inhabitants of a besieged place, or to an army or troops in any situation in which they are subdued or compelled to submit to a victorious enemy.

Capitulation

CAPITULATION, noun

1. The act of capitulating, or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms or conditions.

2. The treaty or instrument containing the conditions of surrender.

3. A reducing to heads.

4. In German polity, a contract which the Emperor makes with the electors, in the names of the princes and states of the empire, before he is raised to the imperial dignity.

Capitulator

CAPITULATOR, noun One who capitulates.

Capitule

CAPITULE, noun A summary.

Capivi

CAPIVI, noun A balsam of the Spanish West-Indies. [See Copaiba.]

Capnomancy

CAPNOMANCY, noun Divination by the ascent or motion of smoke.

Capoch

CAPOCH, noun A monks hood.

Capon

CAPON, noun A castrated cock; a cock-chicken gelded as soon as he quits his dam, or as soon as he begins to crow.

CAPON, verb transitive To castrate, as a cock.

Caponniere

CAPONNIERE, noun In fortification, a covered lodgment, sunk four or five feet into the ground, encompassed with a parapet, about two feet high, serving to support several planks, laden with earth. It is large enough to contain 15 or 20 soldiers, and is placed in the glacis, at the extremity of the counterscarp, and in dry moats, with embrasures or loop holes, through which the soldiers may fire.

Capot

CAPOT, noun A winning of all the tricks of cards at the game of piquet.

CAPOT, verb transitive To win all the tricks of cards at piquet.

Capper

CAPPER, noun [from cap.] One whose business is to make or sell caps.

Capreolate

CAPREOLATE, adjective In botany, having tendrils, or filiform spiral claspers, by which plants fasten themselves to other bodies, as in vines, peas, etc.

Caprice

CAPRICE, noun A sudden start of the mind; a sudden change of opinion, or humor; a whim, freak, or particular fancy.

Capricious

CAPRICIOUS, adjective Freakish; whimsical; apt to change opinions suddenly, or to start from ones purpose; unsteady; changeable; fickle; fanciful; subject to change or irregularity; as a man of a capricious temper.

Capriciously

CAPRICIOUSLY, adverb In a capricious manner; whimsically.

Capriciousness

CAPRICIOUSNESS, noun

1. The quality of being led by caprice; whimsicalness; unsteadiness of purpose or opinion.

2. Unsteadiness; liableness to sudden changes; as the capriciousness of fortune.

Capricorn

CAPRICORN, noun One of the twelve signs of the zodiac, the winter solstice; represented on ancient monuments, by the figure of a goat, or a figure having the fore part like a goat and the hind part like a fish.

Caprification

CAPRIFICATION, noun A method of ripening figs by means of a gnat or insect that pricks the bud.

Caprifole

CAPRIFOLE, noun Honeysuckle; woodbine.

Capriform

CAPRIFORM, adjective Having the form of a goat.

Capriole

CAPRIOLE, noun In the manege, caprioles are leaps that a horse makes in the same place without advancing, in such a manner that when he is at the highth of the leap, he jerks out with his hind legs, even and near. It differs from the croupade in this, that, in a croupade, a horse does not show his shoes, and from a balotade, in which he does not jerk out.

Capriped

CAPRIPED, adjective Having feet like those of a goat.

Capsicum

CAPSICUM, noun Guinea pepper.

Capsize

CAPSIZE, verb transitive To upset or overturn; a seamans phrase.

Capstan

CAPSTAN, noun A strong massy column of timber, formed like a truncated cone, and having its upper extremity pierced to receive bars or levers, for winding a rope round it, to raise great weights, or perform other extraordinary work, that requires a great power. It may be let down through the decks of a ship, and so fixed that the work is performed by a horizontal motion.

Capsular

CAPSULAR,

CAPSULARY, adjective

1. Hollow like a chest.

2. capsular ligament, is that which surrounds every movable articulation, and contains the synovia like a bag.

Capsulary

CAPSULARY, a. 1. Hollow like a chest.2. Capsular ligament, is that which surrounds every movable articulation, and contains the synovia like a bag.

Capsulate

CAPSULATE,

CAPSULATED, adjective Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.

Capsulated

CAPSULATED, a. Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.

Capsule

CAPSULE, noun

1. The seed vessel of a plant; a dry membranaceous hollow pericarp, opening differently in different plants. It is composed of valves or outer covering, partitions, the columella or central pillar, and cells.

2. A small saucer, made of clay for roasting samples or ores, or for melting them.

Captain

CAPTAIN, noun

1. Literally, a head or chief officer; appropriately, the military officer who commands a company, whether of infantry, cavalry, artillery or matrosses.

2. The commander of a ship of war, or of a merchantman. But the latter is often called a master.

3. The commander of a military band, a sense that occurs in the sciptures; as a captain of fifty.

4. A man skilled in war or military affairs; as, Lord Wellington is a great captain

5. A chief commander. Shak. But in this sense rarely used, but in composition.

CAPTAIN-GENERAL, is the commander in chief of an army, or of the militia. The governor of a state is Captain-General of the militia.

CAPTAIN-LIEUTENANT, is an officer, who with the rank of captain and pay of lieutenant, commands a company or troop. Thus the colonel of a regiment being the captain of the first company, that company is commanded by a Captain-Lieutenant.

CAPTAIN-BANSHAW, or Capudan Bashaw, in Turkey, is the High Admiral.

CAPTAIN, adjective Chief; valiant.

Captaincy

CAPTAINCY, noun

1. The rank, post or commission of a captain.

2. The jurisdiction of a captain, or commander, as in South America.

Captainry

CAPTAINRY, noun The power or command over a certain district; chieftainship.

Captainship

CAPTAINSHIP, noun

1. The condition or post of a captain or chief commander.

2. The rank, quality or post of a captain. In lieu of this captaincy is now used.

3. The command of a clan, or government of a certain district.

4. Skill in military affairs.

Captation

CAPTATION, noun The act or practice of catching favor or applause, by flattery or address.

Caption

CAPTION, noun

1. The act of taking, or apprehending by a judicial process.

2. A certificate signed by commissioners in Chancery, declaring when and where the commission was executed.

3. A preamble.

4. In Scots law, a writ issued at the instance of a creditor, commanding an officer to take and imprison the debtor, till he pays the debt.

Captious

CAPTIOUS, adjective

1. Disposed to find fault, or raise objections; apt to cavil, as in popular language, it is said, apt to catch at; as a captious man.

2. Fitted to catch or ensnare; insidious; as a captious question.

3. Proceeding from a caviling disposition; as a captious objection or criticism.

Captiously

CAPTIOUSLY, adverb In a captious manner; with an inclination or intention to object, or censure.

Captiousness

CAPTIOUSNESS, noun Disposition to find fault; inclination to object; peevishness.

Captivate

CAPTIVATE, verb transitive

1. To take prisoner; to seize by force; as an enemy in war.

2. To subdue; to bring into bondage.

3. To overpower and gain with excellence or beauty; to charm; to engage the affections; to bind in love.

4. To enslave; with to; as, captivated to error.

CAPTIVATE, adjective Taken prisoner.

Captivated

CAPTIVATED, participle passive Made prisoner; charmed.

Captivating

CAPTIVATING, participle present tense

1. Taking prisoner; engaging the affections.

2. adjective Having power to engage the affections.

Captivation

CAPTIVATION, noun The act of taking a prisoner; a taking one captive.

Captive

CAPTIVE, noun

1. A prisoner taken by force or stratagem in war, by an enemy; followed by to; as a captive to the victor.

2. One who is charmed or subdued by beauty or excellence; one whose affections are seized, or who is held by strong ties of love.

3. One who is ensnared by love or flattery, or by wiles. 2 Timothy 2:26.

4. A slave. Anciently captives were enslaved by their conquerors. But in modern times, they are not made slaves in Christian countries; and the word captive in a literal sense, rarely signifies a slave.

CAPTIVE, verb transitive To take prisoner; to bring into subjection.

Captivity

CAPTIVITY, noun

1. The state of being a prisoner, or of being in the power of an enemy by force or the fate of war.

2. Subjection to love.

3. Subjection; a state of being under control.

Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5.

4. Subjection; servitude; slavery.

But I see another law in my members--bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. Romans 7:23.

To lead captivity captive, in scripture, is to subdue those who have held others in slavery, or captivity Psalms 98:1.

Captor

CAPTOR, noun One who takes, as a prisoner or a prize. It is appropriately one who takes a prize at sea.

Capture

CAPTURE, noun

1. In a general sense, the act of taking or seizing; as the capture of an enemy, of a ship, or of booty, by force, surprise or stratagem.

2. The thing taken; a prize; prey taken by force, surprise or stratagem.

3. Seizure; arrest as the capture of a criminal or debtor.

CAPTURE, verb transitive To take or seize by force, surprise or stratagem, as an enemy or his property; to take by force under the authority of a commission; as to capture a ship.

Captured

CAPTURED, participle passive Taken as a prize.

Capturing

CAPTURING, participle present tense Seizing as a prize.

Capuccio

CAPUCCIO, noun A capuchin or hood.

Capuched

CAPUCHED, adjective Covered with a hood.

Capuchin

CAPUCHIN, noun

1. A garment for females, consisting of a cloke and hood, made in imitation of the dress of capuchin monks.

2. A pigeon whose head is covered with feathers.

Capuchins

CAPUCHINS, noun Monks of the order of St. Francis, who cover their heads with a capuce, capuchon, a stuff-cap or cowl. They are clothed in brown or gray, go bare-footed, and never shave their faces.

Capucine

CAPUCINE, noun A species of monkey, the sagoo or sai.

Capulin

CAPULIN, noun The Mexican cherry.

Car

CAR, CAER, CHAR, in names of places, is sometimes the Celtic Caer, a town or city, as in Caermarthen.

CAR, noun

1. A small vehicle moved on wheels, usually drawn by one horse.

2. In poetical language, any vehicle of dignity or splendor; a chariot of war, or of triumph.

3. The constellation called Charless wain or the bear.

Carabine

CARABINE,

CARABINEER, noun A man who carries a carabine; one who carries a longer carabine than others, which is sometimes used on foot.

Carac

CARAC,

CARACK, noun A large ship of burden; a Portuguese Indiaman.

Carack

CARACK, n. A large ship of burden; a Portuguese Indiaman.

Caracol

CARACOL, noun

1. In the manege, a semi-round, or half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or left. In the army, the cavalry make a caracol after each discharge, in order to pass to the rear of the squadron.

2. In architecture, a staircase in a helix or spiral form.

CARACOL, verb intransitive To move in a caracol; to wheel.

Caracoly

CARACOLY, noun A mixture of gold, silver and copper, of which are made rings pendants and other toys for the savages.