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Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.

Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. Milton.

Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing. The capacity of blessing the people. Alex. Hamilton. A cause with such capacities endued. Blackmore.

Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a soild and liquid caused bycapillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. -- Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.

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

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…

Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. From the pope to the member of the capitular body. Milman.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives. Capric acid, C9H9.CO2H, Caprylic acid, C7H15.CO2H, and Caproic acid, C5H11.CO2H, are fatty acids occurring in small quantities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of…

Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacæ.

Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.

Pertaining to an acid so called. Carbamic acid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.