The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

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.

To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse.

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

a European weed (Hypochaeris radicata) widely naturalized in North America, having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears.

As much as will fill a cap.

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.

See Capybara.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A filament.

The quality of being capillary.

A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.

A capillary blood vessel.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.

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

Having much hair; hairy.

Hooded; cowled.

Of or pertaining to the head.

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.

same as capitalization.

An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.

One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.

Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists.

The act or process of capitalizing.

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes.

In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.

The quality of being capital; preeminence.

Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.

A numbering of heads or individuals.

See under Tenant.

Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome.

See Capitulum.

Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.

Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.

To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.

A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.

One who capitulates.

A summary.

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.

A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.

See Capel.

A horse; a nag.

See Capelin.

The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel.

Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.

A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar.

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.

To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind.

To castrate; to make a capon of.

A young capon.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

To castrate, as a fowl.

One who directs work; an overseer.

A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

Same as Capoch.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

See cap, n., also Paper, n.

The front piece of a cap; -- now more commonly called visor.

See A cappella.

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

A genus of ruminants, including the common goat.

A salt of capric acid.

a genus somprising the skeleton shrimp.

Having a tendril or tendrils.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

a genus of deer including the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light, dry, white wine.

Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.

A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.

In a free, fantastic style.

An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.

Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.

The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.

Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

The woodbine or honeysuckle.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliac/.

Having the form of a goat.

Of the goat kind.

a widely distributed natural family of nocturnally active birds including the whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus), the chuck-will's-widow (Caprimulgus carolinensis), and the common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor); -- called popularly the goatsuckers or nightjars. The nighthawks are sometimes active during the day.

an order of birds including the goatsuckers (Caprimulgidae), frogmouths, and the oilbird (guacharo) (family Steatornithidae).

the type genus of the Caprimulgidae, including the whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus) and the chuck-will's-widow (Caprimulgus carolinensis).

Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.

To perform a capriole.

Having feet like those of a goat.

A salt of caproic acid.

See under Capric.

A salt of caprylic acid.

See under Capric.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.

A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin.

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.

a natural family comprising the leaf bugs.

An upset or overturn.

A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.

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.

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.

Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box; enclosed in a seed capsule; -- of seeds or spores.

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.

Inflammation of a capsule, as that of the crystalline lens.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

Chief; superior.

The rank, post, or commission of a captain.

Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.

The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander.

A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.

A caviling; a sophism.

Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

In a captious manner.

Captious disposition or manner.