n. 1. 1 extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs and lorises; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins.
Syn. -- Adapid group [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Aesculapius, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Myth.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Samoa. Population (2000) = 32, 859. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A natural family of plants bearing flowers in umbels; examples are: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill.
Syn. -- Umbelliferae, family Umbelliferae, family Apiaceae, carrot family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Umbelliferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to bees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to bees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps an apiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apiarium, fr. apis bee. ] A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. apex, apicis, tip or summit. ] At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. See Apex. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Apicianus. ] Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. apiculus, dim. of L. apex, apicis. ] Situated at, or near, the apex; apical. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Apicular. ] (Bot.) Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + E. culture. ] Rearing of bees for their honey and wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
Syn. -- beekeeper, apiarist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a family of insects comprising the bees; examples are: honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees.
Syn. -- family Apidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + piece. ] Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. “Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In pieces or to pieces. [ Obs. ] “Being torn apieces.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Trimmed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apium parsley + -ol. ] (Med.) An oily liquid derived from parsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + -logist (see -logy). ] A student of bees. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + -logy. ] The scientific or systematic study of honey bees. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L., bee. ] (Zool.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + pitpat. ] With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. feeding on bees; bee-eating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.
Syn. -- Erastianism, Byzantinism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖adv. [ OF. (&unr_;) cap-a-pie, from head to foot, now de pied en cap from foot to head; L. pes foot + caput head. ] From head to foot; at all points. “He was armed cap-a-pie.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. thou mayst take. ] (Low) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ One principal kind of capias is a writ by which actions at law are frequently commenced; another is a writ of execution issued after judgment to satisfy damages recovered; a capias in criminal law is the process to take a person charged on an indictment, when he is not in custody. Burrill. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Capybara. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillaceus hairy, fr. capillus hair. ] Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capillaire maiden-hair; sirop de capillaire capillaire; fr. L. herba capillaris the maidenhair. ] 1. A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillamentum, fr. capillus hair: cf. F. capillament. ] 1. (Bot.) A filament. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being capillary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capillarité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or condition of being capillary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Capillarity depends upon the relative attraction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid, and is especially observable in capillary tubes, where it determines the ascent or descent of the liquid above or below the level of the liquid which the tube is dipped; -- hence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. Capillaire. ] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capillary attraction,
Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. --
Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.
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n.; pl. Capillaries 1. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatio the hair. ] A capillary blood vessel. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatura. ] A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillus hair + -form. ] In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillosus. ] Having much hair; hairy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capistratus, p. p. of capistrare halter. ] (Zool.) Hooded; cowled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. capital, L. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. See Chief, and cf. Capital, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the head. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise
Expect with mortal pain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many crimes that are capital among us. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put to death a capital offender. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. First in importance; chief; principal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A capital article in religion Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Capital letter [ F, lettre capitale ] (Print.), a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing. --
Small capital letters have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters. --
Capital stock, money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. Abbott.

Syn. -- Chief; leading; controlling; prominent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. capitellum and capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of caput head; F. chapiteau, OF. capitel. See chief, and cf. cattle, chattel, chapiter, chapter. ] 1. (Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. capilate, fem., sc. ville. ] (Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. “A busy and splendid capital” Macauly. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. F. capital. ] Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. M'Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). T. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

Active capital. See under Active, --
Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a. --
To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as capitalization.
Syn. -- capitalization. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.
Syn. -- capitalist economy. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]