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

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. Wright.

of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.

Having the form of a goat.

A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce.

ct as captain of; to lead. [R.] Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms. Lowell.

A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

A staircase in a spiral form. En caracole ( Etym: [F.], spiral; -- said of a staircase.

ut occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

e number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.

s present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc.…

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.