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Having pleasing of useful qualities; gentle. Burns.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

The quality of being musical. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell.

To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior.

The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal. "A capacious mind." Watts.

The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat. Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a…

A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

The quality of being capillary.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.]

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

prylic 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 goats or sweat.