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ve Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.

A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

r pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. -- n.

Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.] Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. Milton.

One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.

The act or process of capitalizing.

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.

The quality of being capital; preeminence. [R.]

The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.

A numbering of heads or individuals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

The act of crepitating or crackling.

To cut off the head of; to behead.