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n. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., hawks. ] (Zool.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of birds consisting of the hawks; -- this family includes the Old World vultures; kites; harriers; and eagles.
Syn. -- family Accipitridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 in some classifications an alternative name for the Falconiformes.
Syn. -- order Accipitriformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. accipitrin. ] (Zool.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an extinct primate of about 38 million years ago; -- fossils were found in Egypt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. anceps, ancipitis, two-headed, double; an- for amb- on both sides + caput head. ] (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Arm + pit. ] The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or “pitching” the trump suit. R. F. Foster. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. any of several extinct humanlike small-brained bipedal primates of the genus Australopithecus; they existed from 1 to 4 million years ago. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the genus Australopithecus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a family comprising the shoebills.
Syn. -- family Balaenicipitidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Basi- + occipital. ] (Anat.) Of or 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. The basioccipital bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bespit; p. p. Bespit, Bespitten p. pr. & vb. n. Bespitting. ] To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. biceps, bicipitis: cf. F. bicipital. See Biceps. ] 1. (Anat.) (a) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. (b) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two heads; bicipital. “Bicipitous serpents.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the United States, which was described thus by President Theodore Rossevelt. [ PJC ]

a. Same as Cespitose. [ 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 ]

n. [ Cf. F. capitaliste. ] One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists. capitalistic methods and incentives
Syn. -- capitalist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Favoring or practicing capitalism. [ Narrower terms: bourgeois ] socialistic
Syn. -- capitalist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or process of capitalizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capitalized p. pr. & vb. n. Capitalizing. ] 1. To convert into capital, or to use as capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.) [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock. [ PJC ]

v. t. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes. [ PJC ]

adv. 1. In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a capital manner; excellently. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being capital; preeminence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ See capitan. ] The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capitatus fr. caput head. ] 1. Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the flowers gathered into a head. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. ] Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capitatio a poll tax, fr. caput head; cf. F. capitation. ] 1. A numbering of heads or individuals. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., abl. of caput head. ] See under Tenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capitellum, dim. of caput head. ] (Bot.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. caput, capitis, head + -branchiae gills. ] (Zool.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. capitolium, fr. caput head: cf. F. capitole. See Chief. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of a State holds its sessions; a statehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. capitolinus: cf. F. capitolin. ] Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. “Capitolian Jove.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, after a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. See Capitulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. capitulare, capitularium, fr. L. capitulum a small head, a chapter, dim. of capit head, chapter. ] 1. An act passed in a chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The head or prominent part. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the pope to the member of the capitular body. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Capitularies /plu>. [ See Capitular. ] 1. A capitular. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several of Charlemagne's capitularies. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. “Capitulary acts.” Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Capitulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Capitulating. ] [ LL. capitulatus, p. p. of capitulare to capitulate: cf. F. capituler. See Capitular, n. ] 1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capitulation, LL. capitulatio. ] 1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]