Search the Dictionary

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.]

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.

The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] Fuller.

The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

Destitute of a scape.

mpositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

See Capel.

See Capelin.

Same as Capellet.

The cobra de capello.

Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily. [Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. Spenser.

-- Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. -- Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).