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Cap   /kæp/   Listen
noun
Cap  n.  
1.
A covering for the head; esp.
(a)
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys;
(b)
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants;
(c)
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
2.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief. "Thou art the cap of all the fools alive."
3.
A respectful uncovering of the head. "He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks."
4.
(Zool.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
5.
Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as:
(a)
(Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
(b)
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
(c)
(Naut.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
(d)
A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
(e)
(Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box.
(f)
(Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
6.
A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.
Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively.
Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty.
Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.
Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.
Cap paper.
(a)
A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap.
(b)
A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities.
Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.
Flat cap, cap See Foolscap.
Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier.
Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge."
To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.)
To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. (Colloq.)


verb
Cap  v. t.  (past & past part. capped; pres. part. capping)  
1.
To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun. "The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance."
2.
To deprive of cap. (Obs.)
3.
To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
4.
To salute by removing the cap. (Slang. Eng.) "Tom... capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows."
5.
To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. "Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter." Note: In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of the first letter, or with the first letter of the last word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon.


Cap  v. i.  To uncover the head respectfully.





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... secret thoughts of the wedding-guests, and learned much which the others did not suspect. The bridegroom thought more of the wealth of his father-in-law than of his young wife; and she, who was not altogether faultless, hoped that her husband and her matron's cap would protect her from scandal. It's a great pity that such a hat is no longer to be met with in ...
— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby
... I say, and withal declared it to be not only possible, but also maintained the lawful birth and legitimation of the infant born of a woman in the eleventh month after the decease of her husband. Hypocrates, lib. de alimento. Plinius, lib. 7, cap. 5. Plautus, in his Cistelleria. Marcus Varro, in his satire inscribed The Testament, alleging to this purpose the authority of Aristotle. Censorinus, lib. de die natali. Arist. lib. 7, cap. 3 & 4, de natura animalium. Gellius, lib. 3, cap. 16. Servius, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... already been sufficiently divulged in an address of Mr. Clement C. Clay to the Legislature of Alabama. But there was another more hidden impulse to this extreme solicitude for the recognition of the independence of Texas working in the free states, quite as ready to assume the mask and cap of liberty as the slave-dealing champions of the rights of man. The Texan land and liberty jobbers had spread the contagion of their land-jobbing traffic all over the free states throughout the Union. ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy
... words came back to me! It was to Boulogne that in my boyhood we had gone down for the summer bathing. Could I not remember as a little lad trotting along by my father's side as he paced the beach, and wondering why every fisherman's cap flew off at our approach? And as to Etaples, it was thence that we had fled for England, when the folks came raving to the pier-head as we passed, and I joined my thin voice to my father's as he shrieked back at them, for a stone had broken my mother's knee, and we were ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
... at her, and then two smiling little faces were pressed against the pane for an eager glimpse. It was the prettiest wayside picture the passengers had seen in all that morning's travel—the Little Colonel on her pony, with the spray of locust bloom in the cockade of the Napoleon cap she wore, and a plume of the same graceful blossoms nodding jauntily over each of ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston


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