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minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

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

Having much hair; hairy. [R.]

Hooded; cowled.

Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.] Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. Milton.

One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.

The act or process of capitalizing.

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.

The quality of being capital; preeminence. [R.]

The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

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

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

See under Tenant.

Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

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

The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow Shak.