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With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

r pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. -- n.

To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson.

Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.

Same as Cespitose.

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.