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lscap; 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…

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

orse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.

Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light, dry, white wine.

t the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden.

A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce.

a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.

a captive or a prisoner. More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs. Dryden.

Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. Dryden.

ul for us with all this care. 2. Kings iv, 13. What could a careful father more have done Dryden.

A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol, and the dance. Dryden It was the carol of a bird. Byron.

To find fault with; to censure. [Obs.] Dryden.

ue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. -- To carry out. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. -- To carry through. (a) To convey through the midst of. (b) T…

A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.

which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

The thing thrown. A cast of dreadful dust. Dryden.

To engage and attach; to please; to charm. The soothing arts that catch the fair. Dryden.

A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.…