bundred in England. For cantre, in the British language, signifieth à hundred. Corvell.

The king regrants to him all that province, reserving only the city of Dublin, and the cantreds next adjoining, with the maritime towns. Davies. CA'NVASS. n. s. [canevas, Fr. cannabis, Lat. hemp.]

1. A kind of linen cloth woven for several uses, as sails, painting cloths, tents. The master commanded forthwith to set on all the canvass they could, and fly homeward. Sid. And eke the pens, that did his pinions bind, Were like main yards with flying canvass lin'd. Spenser. Their canvass castles up they quickly rear, And build a city in an hour's space. Fairfax. Where'er thy navy spreads her canvass wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings.

Waller.

With such kind passion hastes the prince to fight,

And spreads his flying canvass to the sound;

Him whom no danger, were he there, could fright,

Now absent, every little noise can wound. Dryd.
Thou, Kneller, long with noble pride,

The foremost of thy art, hast vied
With nature in a generous strife,
And touch'd the canvass into life.

Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.➡ Why, this was moulded on a porringer, A velvet dish. Shaksp. Taming of the Shrew. I have ever held my cap off to thy fortune.-Thou hast serv'd me with much faith. Shak. First, lolling sloth in woollen ap,

Taking her after-dinner nap.

Swift.

4.

Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. Shaks. A reverence made by uncovering the head.

Sbak.

They more and less came in with cap and knee, Met him in boroughs, cities, villages. Should the want of a cap or a cringe so mortally discompose him, as we find afterwards it' did? L'Estrange.

2. The act of sifting voices, or trying them previously to the decisive act of voting. from canvass, as it signifies a sicve.] There be that can pack cards, and yet cannot play well; so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak Bacon.

men.

To CANVASS. v. a. [Skinner derives it from cannabasser, Fr. to beat hemp; which being a very laborious employ ment, it is used to signify, to search diligently into.]

1. Tosift; to examine. [from canvass, a straining cloth.]

2.

man.

YOL. I.

A vessel made like a cap.

It is observed, that a barrel or cap, whose cavity will contain eight cubical feet of air, will not serve a diver above a quarter of an hour.

Wilkins.

6. Cap of a great gun. A piece of lead laid over the touch-hole, to preserve the prime.

7. Cap of maintenance. One of the rega lia carried before the king at the coronation.

To CAP. v. a. [from the noun.]. 1. To cover on the top.

The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance, serving both to Derbam. strength and motion.

2. To deprive of the cap.

If one, by another occasion, take any thing from another, as boys sometimes used to cap one another, the same is straight felony.

Spenser on Ireland. 3. To cap verses. To name alternately verses beginning with a particular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest.

texts.

Where Henderson, and th' other masses, Were sent to cap texts, and put cases. Hudibras. Sure it is a pitiful pretence to ingenuity that can be thus kept up, there being little need of any other faculty but memory, to be able to cap Government of the Tongue. There is an author of ours, whom I would desire him to read, before he ventures at capAtterbury. ping characters. CAP à pè. [cap à piè, Fr.] From head CAP à pie. to foot; all over. A figure like your father, Arm'd at all points exactly, cap à pè, Appears before them, and, with solemn march, Goes slow and stately by them. Shaks. Hamlet. There for the two contending knights he sent; Arm'd cap à pie, with rev'rence low they bent. Dryden.

CAP PAPER.

A sort of coarse brownish paper. So called from being formed into a kind of cap to hold commodities. Having, for trial sake, filtered it through cappaper, there remained in the filtre a powder. Boyle. CAPABILITY. n. s. [from capable.] Capacity; the quality of being capable. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unus'd.

CAPABLE. adj. [capable, Fr.]

Shakspeare.

1. Sufficient to contain; sufficiently capacious.

When we consider so much of that space, as is equal to, or capable to receive, a body of any Locke. assigned dimensions. 2. Endued with powers equal to any particular thing.

To say, that the more capable, or the better deserver, hath such right to govern, as he may compulsorily bring under the less worthy, is idle. Bacon.

When you hear any person give his judgment, consider with yourself whether he be a capable judge. Watts.

3. Intelligent; able to understand. Look you, how pale he glares; His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, Would make them capable. Shaksp. Hamlet. 4. Intellectually capacious; able to receive.

I am much bound to God, that he hath endued you with one capable of the best instrucDigby.

tions.

5. Susceptible.

The soul, immortal substance, to remain Conscious of joy, and capable of pain. Prior. 6. Qualified for; without any natural impediment.

There is no man that believes the goodness of God, but must be inclined to think, that he hath made some things for as long a duration as they are capable of. Tillotson.

7. Qualified for; without legal impedi

ment.

Of my land,

Loyal and natural boy! I'll work the means To make thee capable. Shakspeare's King Lear. 8. It has the particle of before a noun.

What secret springs their eager passions move, How capable of death for injur'd love! Dryden. 9. Hollow. This sense is not now in use. Lean but upon a rush,

The cicatrice, and capable impressure, Thy palm some moments keeps. Shakspeare. CAPABLENESS. n. s. [from capable.] The quality or state of being capable; knowledge; understanding; power of

mind.

CAPA'CIOUS. adj. [capax, Lat.]
1. Wide; large; able to hold much.

Beneath th' incessant weeping of those drains I see the rocky siphons stretch'd immense, The mighty reservoirs of harden'd chalk Or stiff compacted clay, capacious found. Thomson's Autumn. 2. Extensive; equal to much knowledge, or great design.

There are some persons of a good genius, and a capacious mind, who write and speak very obscurely. Watts. CAPACIOUSNESS. n. s. [from capacious.] The power of holding or receiving; largeness.

A concave measure, of known and denomi nate capacity, serves to measure the capacious ners of any other vessel. In like manner, to a given weight the weight of all other bodies may be reduced, and so found out. Holder. To CAPACITATE. v. a. [from capacity.] To make capable; to enable; to qualify. By this instruction we may be capacitated to observe those errours. Dryden.

'These sort of men were sycophants only, and were endued with arts of life, to capacitate them for the conversation of the rich and great. Tatler. CAPACITY. n. 5. [capacité, Fr.] 1. The power of holding or containing any thing.

Had our palace the capacity To camp this host, we would all sup together. Shakspeart. Notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price.

Shakspeare. For they that most and greatest things embrace, Enlarge thereby their mind's capacity, As streams enlarg'd, enlarge the channel's space. Davies.

Space, considered in length, breadth, and thickness, I think, may be called capacity. Locke. 2. Room; space.

3.

There remained, in the capacity of the exhausted cylinder, store of little rooms, or spaces, empty or devoid of air. Boyle.

The force or power of the mind. No intellectual creature is able, by capacity, to do that which nature doth without capacity and knowledge. Hooker.

In spiritual natures, so much as there is of de sire, so much there is also of capacity to receive. I do not say, there is always a capacity to receive the very thing they desire, for that may be impossible.

South.

An heroic poem requires the accomplishment of some extraordinary undertaking; which requires the duty of a soldier, and the capacity and prudence of a general. Dryden's Juv. Dedication. 4. Power; ability.

Since the world's wide frame does not include A cause with such capacities endued, Some other cause o'er nature must preside. Blackmore.

5. State; condition; character.

A miraculous revolution, reducing many from the head of a triumphant rebellion to their old condition of masons, smiths, and carpenters; that, in this capacity, they might repair what, as colonels and captains, they had ruined and defaced. South.

You desire my thoughts as a friend, and not as a member of parliament; they are the same in both capacities. Swift. CAPAʼRISON. n. s. [caparazon, a great cloak, Span.] A horse-cloth, or a sort of cover for a horse, which is spread over his furniture. Farrier's Dict.

Tilting furniture, emblazon'd shields, Impresses quaint, caparisons, and steeds, Bases, and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knights, At joust and tournament. Paradise Lost.

Some wore a breast plate, and a light juppon; Their horses cloath'd with rich caparison. Dryd, To CAPARISON. v. a. [from the noun.] I. To dress in caparisons.

The steeds caparison'd with purple stand, With golden trappings, glorious to behold, And Champ betwixt their teeth the foaming gold. Dryd

3. To dress pompously in a ludicrous

sense.

Don't you think, though I am caparison'd like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my disposition? Shakspeare's As you like it.

CAPE. n. s. [cape, Fr.)

1. Headland; promontory.
What from the cape can you discern at sea?-
-Nothing at all; it is a high wrought flood.
Shakspeare's Othello.

The parting sun,
Beyond the earth's green cape and verdant isles,
Hesperean sets; my signal to depart. Milton.
The Romans made war upon the Tarentines,
and obliged them by treaty not to sail beyond
the cape.
Arbuthnot.

2. The neck-piece of a cloak.

He was clothed in a robe of fine black cloth, with wide sleeves and cape. Bacon. CA'PER. n. s. [from caper, Latin, a goat.] A leap; a jump; a skip.

We, that are true lovers, run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. Shakspeare. Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper, on the strait rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire. Swift. CA'PER. n. s. [capparis, Lat.] An acid pickle: See CAPER BUSH.

We invent new sauces and pickles, which resemble the animal ferment in taste and virtue, as mangoes, olives, and capers. Floyer. CAPER BUSH. n. s. [capparis, Lat.]

The fruit is fleshy, and shaped like a pear. This plant grows in the south of France, in Spain, and and in Italy, upon old walls and buildings; the buds of the flowers, before they are open, Miller. are pickled for eating. To CA'PER. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To dance frolicksomely.

The truth is, I am only old in judgment; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and have at him. Shakspeare's Henry iv.

2. To skip for merriment. Our master

Cap'ring to eye her. Shakspeare's Tempest. His nimble hand's instinct then taught each string

A cap'ring cheerfulness, and made them sing

To their own dance.

and adorned with little knobs at the top, are called capillaments. Quincy. CA'PILLARY. adj. [from capillus, hair, Lat.]

1. Resembling hairs; small; minute: ap. plied to plants.

Capillary or capillaceous plants, are such as have no main stalk or stem, but grow to the ground, as hairs on the head; and which bear their seeds in little tufts or protuberances on the backside of their leaves. Quincy.

Our common hyssop is not the least of vegetables, nor observed to grow upon walls; but rather, some kind of capillaries, which are very small plants, and only grow upon walls and stony places. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 2. Applied to vessels of the body: small; as the ramifications of the arteries.

Quincy, Ten capillary arteries in some parts of the body, as in the brain, are not equal to one hair; and the smallest lymphatick vessels are an hundred times smaller than the smallest capillary Arbuthnot on Aliments. artery.

CAPILLATION. n. s. [from capillus, Lat.] A vessel like a hair; a small ramification of vessels. Not used.

Nor is the humour contained in smaller veins, or obscurer capillations, but in a vesicle. Brown. CAPITAL. adj. [capitalis, Lat.] 1. Relating to the head.

2.

Needs must the serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. Paradise Lost. Criminal in the highest degree, so as to touch life.

Edmund, I arrest thee On capital treason. Shakspeare's King Lear. Several cases deserve greater punishment than many crimes that are capital among us. Swift. 3. That affects life.

In capital causes, wherein but one man's life is in question, the evidence ought to be clear; much more in a judgment upon a war, which is Bacon. capital to thousands.

4. Chief; principal.

5.

I will, out of that infinite number, reckon but some that are most capital, and commonly occurrent both in the life and conditions of private Spenser on Ireland.

men.

As to swerve in the least points, is errour; so the capital enemies thereof God hateth, as his deadly foes, aliens, and, without repentance, children of endless perdition. Hooker.

They do, in themselves, tend to confirm the truth of a capital article in religion. Atterbury. Chief; metropolitan.

This had been

Perhaps thy capital seat, from whence had spread
All generations; and had hither come,
From all the ends of th' earth, to celebrate
And reverence thee, their great progenitor.
Paradise Lost.

6. Applied to letters: large; such as are written at the beginnings or heads of books.

Our most considerable actions are always present, like capital letters to an aged and din Taylor's Holy Living. eye. The first is written in capital letters, without chapters or verses. Grew's Cosmologia Sacre 7. Capital stock. The principal or original stock of a trader or company. CAPITAL. n. s. [from the adjective.] 1. The upper part of a pillar.

You see the yolute of the Lenick, the foliage

Ff

of the Corinthian, and the uovali of the Dorick, mixed without any regularity on the same capital. Addison on Italy. 2. The chief city of a nation or kingdom. CAPITALLY. adv. [from capital.] In a capital manner. CAPITATION. n. s. [from caput, the head, Lat.] Numeration by heads.

He suffered for not performing the commandment of God concerning capitation; that, when the people were numbered, for every head they should pay unto God a shekel. Brown. CAPITE. n. s. [from caput, capitis, Lat.] A tenure which holdeth immediately of the king, as of his crown, be it by knight's service or socage, and not as of any honour, castle, or manour; and therefore it is otherwise called a tenure, that holdeth merely of the king; be cause, as the crown is a corporation and seigniory in gross, as the common lawyers term it, so the king that possesseth the crown is, in account of law, perpetually king, and never in his minority,

nor ever dieth.

Corvell.

CAPITULAR. 2.s. [from capitulum, Lat. an ecclesiastical chapter.] 1. The body of the statutes of a chapter. That this practice continued to the time of Charlemain, appears by a constitution in his capitular. Taylor.

2. A member of a chapter.

Canonists do agree, that the chapter makes decrees and statutes, which shall bind the chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe. To CAPITULATE. v. n. [from capitalum, Lat.]

1. To draw up any thing in heads or articles..

Percy, Northumberland,

The archbishop of York, Douglas, and Mortimer, Capitulate against us, and are up. Shakspeare. 2. To yield, or surrender up, on certain stipulations.

The king took it for a great indignity, that thieves should offer to capitulate with him as enemies. Hayward.

I still pursued, and about two o'clock this afternoon she thought fit to capitulate. Spectator. CAPITULATION. n. s. [from capitulate.] Stipulation; terms; conditions.

It was not a complete conquest, but rather a dedition upon terms and capitulations, agreed between the conqueror and the conquered; wherein, usually, the yielding party secured to themselves their law and religion. CAPI'VI TREE. n. s. [copaiba, Lat.]

Hale.

This tree grows near a village called Ayapel, in the province of Antiochi, in the Spanish West Indies, about ten days journey from Carthagena. Some of them do not yield any of the balsam; those that do, are distinguished by a ridge which runs along their trunks. These trees are wounded in their centre, and they apply vessels to the wounded part, to receive the balsam. One of these trees will yield five or six gallons

of balsam.

Miller. To Caro'CH. v, a. I know not distinctly what this word means; perhaps, to strip off the hood.

Capoch'd your rabins of the synod,. And snapt the canons with a why not. Hudibras. CAPON.n.s. [capo, Lat.] A castrated cock.

2

In good roast beef my landlord sticks his knife, The capon fat delights his dainty wife. Gay. CAPOŃNIE'RE. n. s. [Fr. a term in fortification.] A covered lodgment, of about four or five feet broad, encompassed with a little parapet of about two feet high, serving to support planks laden with earth. This lodgment contains fifteen or twenty soldiers, and is usually placed at the extremity of the counterscarp, having little embrasures made in them, through which they fire. Harris.

CAPO'T. n. s. [French.] Is when one party wins all the tricks of cards at the game of picquet.

To CA POT. v. a. [from the noun.] When one party has won all the tricks of cards at picquet, he is said to have capotted his antagonist.

CAPO'UCH. n. s. [capuce, Fr.] A monk's

hood:

Dict.

CAPPER. n. s. [from cap.] One who makes or sells caps. CAPREOLATE. adj. [from capreolus, a tendril of a vine, Lat.]

Such plants as turn, wind, and creep along the ground, by means of their tendrils, as gourds, melons, and cucumbers, are termed in botany, capreolate plants. Harris. CAPRICE. Įn. s. [caprice, capricho, CAPRICHIO.Š Span.] Freak; fancy; whim; sudden change of humour.

It is a pleasant spectacle to behold the shifts windings, and unexpected caprichies of distressed nature, when pursued by a close and well-ma naged experiment. Granville.

We are not to be guided in the sense of that book, either by the misreports of some ancients, or the caprichios of one or two neoterics. Gree

Heav'n's great view is one, and that the whole; That counterworks each folly and caprice, That disappoints th' effect of ev'ry vice. Pepe. If there be a single spot more barren, or more distant from the church, there the rector or vicar may be obliged, by the caprice or pique of the bishop, to build. Swift.

Their passions move in lower spheres, Where'er caprice or folly steers.

Swift.

All the various machines and utensils would now and then play odd pranks and caprices, quite contrary to their proper structures, and design of the artificers. Bentley. CAPRICIOUS. adj. [capricieux, Fr.] Whimsical; fanciful; humoursome. CAPRICIOUSLY. adv. [from capricious.] Whimsically; in a manner depending wholly upon fancy.`

CAPRICIOUSNESS. n. 3. [from capricious.} The quality of being led by caprice; humour; whimsicalness.

A subject ought to suppose that there are rea sons, although he be not apprised of them; other wise, he must tax his prince of capriciousness, in constancy, or ill design. CAPRICORN. n. s. [capricornus, Lat.] Swift. One of the signs of the zodiack; the winter solstice.

Let the longest night in Capricorn be of fifteen hours, the day consequently must be of nine. Notes to Creech's Manilius. CAPRIO'LE. n. s. [French, in horsemanship.] Caprioles are leaps, such as

a horse makes in one and the same - place, without advancing forwards, and in such a manner, that when he is in the air, and height of his leap, he yerks or strikes out with his hindes legs, even and near. A capriole is the most difficult of all the high manage, or raised airs. It is different from the croupade in this, that the horse does not show his shoes; and from a balotade, in that he does not yerk out in a balotade. Farrier's Dict. `CAPSTAN. n.s. [corruptly called capstern; cabestan, Fr.] A cylinder, with levers, to wind up any great weight, particularly to raise the anchors.

The weighing of anchors by the capstan is also new. Raleigh's Essays. No niore behold thee turn my watch's key, As seamen at a capstan anchors weigh. Swift. CAPSULAR. adj. [capsula, Lat.] HolCAPSULARY.S low like a chest. '

It ascendeth not directly unto the throat, but ascending first into a capsulary reception of the breast-bone, it ascendeth again into the neck. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CAPSULATE. adj. [capsula, Lat.] EnCAPSULATED.S closed, as in a box.

Seeds, such as are corrupted and stale, will swim; and this agreeth unto the seeds of plants, locked up and capsulated in their husks.

Brown.

was a great captain.

4. The commander of a company in a regiment.

A captain! these villains will make the name of captain as odious as the word occupy; therefore captains had need look to it. Shakspeare. The grim captain, in a surly tone, Cries out, Pack up, ye rascals, and be gone! Dryden.

5. The chief commander of a ship.

The Rhodian captain, relying on his knowledge, and the lightness of his vessel, passed, Arbuth. in open day, through all the guards.

6. It was anciently written capitain. And ever more their cruel capitain Sought with his rascal routs t' enclose them Fairy Queen. 7. Captain General. The general or commander in chief of an army.

round.

4.

Therefore so please thee to return with us, And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take 'The captainship. Shakspeare's Timon. The rank, quality, or post, of a captain. The lieutenant of the colonel's company might well pretend to the next vacant captainship in the same regiment. Wotton.

The chieftainship of a clan, or govern

ment of a certain district.

To diminish the Irish lords, he did abolish their pretended and usurped captainskips. Davies. Skill in the military trade. CAPTATION. n. s. [from capto, Lat.]-The practice of catching favour or applause ; courtship; flattery.

I am content my heart should be discovered, without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. King Charles. s. [from capio, Lat. to CAPTION. n. take.] The act of taking any person by a judicial process. CAPTIOUS. adj. [captieux, Fr. captiosus, Lat.]

1. Given to cavils; eager to object.

If he shew a forwardness to be reasoning about things, take care that nobody check this inclination, or mislead it by captious or fallacious ways Locke. of talking with him.

2. Insidious; ensnaring.

She taught him likewise how to avoid sundry captions and tempting questions, which were like to be asked of him.

Bacon.

CAPTIOUSLY, adv. [from captious.] In a captious manner; with an inclination to object.

Use your words as captiously as you can, in your arguing on one side, and apply distinctions on the other. Locke.

CAPTIOUSNESS. n. s. [from captious.] Inclination to find fault; inclination to object; peevishness.

Captiousness is a fault opposite to civility; it often produces misbecoming and provoking expressions and carriage. Locke.

TO CARTIVATE. v. a. [captiver, Fr. captivo, Lat.]

1. To take prisoner; to bring into bondage.

How ill beseeming is it in thy sex
To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,
Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
Shakspeare.
Thou hast by tyranny these many years
Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
And sent our sons and husbands captivate. Shak.
He deserves to be a slave, that is content to
have the rational sovereignty of his soul, and the
liberty of his will, so captivated. King Charles.

They stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturb them. Locke. 2. To charm; to overpower with excellence; to subdue.

Wisdom enters the last, and so captivates him with her appearance, that he gives himself up to Addison's Guardian.

her.

3. To enslave: with to.