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A young capon. [R.] Chapman.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

To castrate, as a fowl.

One who directs work; an overseer. [Sp. Amer.]

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

Same as Capoch.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

See cap, n., also Paper, n.

The front piece of a cap; -- now more commonly called visor.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

See A cappella.

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

A genus of ruminants, including the common goat.

A salt of capric acid.

Having a tendril or tendrils.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light, dry, white wine.

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…