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ness of the see. Goldsmith. Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. Macaulay.

A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for…

s in mirth or dancing; a prank. To cut a caper, to frolic; to make a sportive spring; to play a prank. Shak.

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

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.

A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.

A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.

racter; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.

self to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay.

t has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay.

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.

. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

ed Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. Shak. To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaula…