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The top, or uppermost part; the chief. Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. Shak.

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior.

The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft.

In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.

The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

r space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle.

See Cap-a-pie. Shak.

From head to foot; at all points. "He was armed cap-a-pie." Prescott.

ings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

d, extending beyind the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promonotory; a headland. Cape buffalo (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2. -- Cape jasmine, Cape jassamine. See Jasmine. -- Cape pigeon (Zoöl.),…

A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

A horse; a nag. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.

See Capelin.

nland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]