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A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color, with broad brim and high crown, creased down the middle.…

,.A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

Having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains.

A very small humming bird (Microchæra albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.

Same as Arthrostraca.

A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecæ.

Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.

To remove a cap or cover from.

Incapable. [Obs.] "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.

To remove a cap or cape from. [Obs.]

An instrument for removing an explode cap from a cartridge shell.

Having but one capsule to each flower.

Not be escaped; inevitable. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.

A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape. [Jocose] Fairholt.

The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made fr…

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.