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To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse. [Obs.] Birch.

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

See cap, n., also Paper, n.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

Same as Diaper, n.,

One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon.

To decorate with a diaper pattern.

One who escapes.

A large edible clam (Schizothærus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]