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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.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

Of or pertaining to a catapult.

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.

A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance. Chapeau bras ( Etym: [F. chapeau hat + bras arm], a hat so made that it can be compressed and carried under the arm without injury. Such hats were particularly worn on dress occasions by gentlemen in the 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general…

Furnished with a chape or chapes. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

Without a chape.

A pair of Straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

The territorial disrict legally assigned to a chapel.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.] Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift.

One who cheapens.

A bird; the flicker.