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occasion crime. [Obs.] The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.

o a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance. Halliwell. Cushion capital.(Arch.) A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of whic…

him short, and thus replied." Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. -- To have cut one's eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. [Colloq.] -- To cut one's wisdom teeth, to come to years of discr…

Relating to capital letters.

Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.

Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

place; a haunt; as, a den of vice. "Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of great capitals." Addison.

at is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river). The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the cha…

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

urce; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.

in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.