Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CAPACITATION

CAPACITATION, noun The act of making capable.

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CAPACITY

CAPACITY, noun1. 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 mi...

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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 transitive1. To cover with a cloth...

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CAPCASE

CAPCASE, noun A covered case.

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CAPE

CAPE, noun1. 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...

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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 o...

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CAPELLA

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

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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.

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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, ...

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CAPER-BUSH

CAPER-BUSH. [See Caper.]

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CAPER-CUTTING

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

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CAPERER

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

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CAPERING

CAPERING, participle present tense Leaping; skipping.

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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 pl...

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CAPIBAR

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

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CAPILLACEOUS

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

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CAPILLAIRE

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

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CAPILLAMENT

CAPILLAMENT, noun1. 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...

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CAPILLARY

CAPILLARY, adjective1. 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 ramificatio...

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CAPILLATION

CAPILLATION, noun A blood vessel like a hair.

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CAPILLIFORM

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

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CAPITAL

CAPITAL, adjective1. 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; pr...

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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.

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CAPITALLY

CAPITALLY, adverb1. In a capital manner; nobly; finely.2. With loss of life; as, to punish capitally

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CAPITALNESS

CAPITALNESS, noun A capital offense.

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CAPITATE

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

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CAPITATION

CAPITATION, noun1. 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.