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A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

Having many, or several, capsules.

Of or pertaining to the Muscicapidæ, a family of birds that includes the true flycatchers.

A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.

Too capable. [R.] Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.

The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.

See Leucic.

Having five capsules.

A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called liberty cap, or cap of liberty.

The finfoot.

Capture of fishes, as by angling. [R.] W. H. Russell.

A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.

A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fall…

The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.

Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.

Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.

The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.

A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.

Having four capsules.