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To make calm; to render still or quet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. To calm the tempest raised by Eolus. Dryden.

A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle.

A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

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

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

al punishment. Many crimes that are capital among us. Swift. To put to death a capital offender. Milton.

To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.

rent rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

n act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. Wooed her with his soft caresses. Langfellow. He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

To render insensible to good influences.

Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.

To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleing.

To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [Obs.]

The French lavender (Lawandula Stachas).

of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer…