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A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] Fuller.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott.

An act passed in a chapter.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.…

A young capon. [R.] Chapman.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]

use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. -- On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. -- Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards card…

Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor. Graig.

A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.

Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying. Nine days employed in carriage. Chapman.

The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

on. -- To carry coals, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. Halliwell. -- To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. -- To carry off (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as f…