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An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

aner, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draughtsman's or mechanic's square, having a graduated bar and adjustable jaw or jaws. Knight. -- Vernier calipers. See Vernier.

See Calipers.

One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.

Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

See Capper, a plant, 2.

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

rthern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

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.

An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

One who carps; a caviler. Shak.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

One who champs, or bites.