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That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

d as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

ain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. G. Francis.

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.

ficer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve expl…

fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

el; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.

nication, degradation, penance, etc. -- Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

ical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

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

A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.