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

e in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion. "Caprices of appetite." W. Irving.

In a free, fantastic style.

Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam.

un enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

The woodbine or honeysuckle. Spenser.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacæ.

Having the form of a goat.

Of the goat kind.

Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.

A leap or caper, as in dancing. "With lofty turns and caprioles." Sir J. Davies.

Having feet like those of a goat.

A salt of caproic acid.

See under Capric.

A salt of caprylic acid.

See under Capric.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.