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Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.

A numbering of heads or individuals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

The head or prominent part.

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 reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

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

rtical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam…

A head, or chief officer; as:

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

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.

A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.

ne of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.

To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.

A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.

A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.

A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet. His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes. Prescott.