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A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow Shak.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

See Capitulum.

A member of a chapter. The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe.

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

A capitular.

the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.

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

One who capitulates.

A summary. [Obs.]

of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

Hundred-headed.

An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.

Same as Cespitious. [R.] Gough.

any stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [Written also cæspitose.]

Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy. A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn.

A capital [Obs.] See Chapital. Ex. xxxvi. 38.

A pit where coal is dug.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.