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Cap   /kæp/   Listen
noun
Cap  n.  
1.
A covering for the head; esp.
(a)
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys;
(b)
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants;
(c)
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
2.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief. "Thou art the cap of all the fools alive."
3.
A respectful uncovering of the head. "He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks."
4.
(Zool.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
5.
Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as:
(a)
(Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
(b)
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
(c)
(Naut.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
(d)
A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
(e)
(Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box.
(f)
(Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
6.
A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.
Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively.
Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty.
Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.
Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.
Cap paper.
(a)
A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap.
(b)
A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities.
Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.
Flat cap, cap See Foolscap.
Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier.
Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge."
To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.)
To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. (Colloq.)


verb
Cap  v. t.  (past & past part. capped; pres. part. capping)  
1.
To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun. "The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance."
2.
To deprive of cap. (Obs.)
3.
To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
4.
To salute by removing the cap. (Slang. Eng.) "Tom... capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows."
5.
To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. "Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter." Note: In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of the first letter, or with the first letter of the last word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon.


Cap  v. i.  To uncover the head respectfully.





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"Cap" Quotes from Famous Books



... set the table. Elizabeth looked alternately at her and at the tea-kettle; both almost equally strange; she rather took a fancy to both. Certainly to the former. Her gown was spare, shewing that means were so, and her cap was the plainest of muslin caps, without lace or bedecking; yet in the quiet ordering of gown and cap and the neat hair, a quiet and ordered mind was almost confessed; and not many glances at the calm mouth and grave brow and thoughtful eye, ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... the past has handed down to our time, as the hot-blooded Communists of Paris seemed to be inclined to do in the late crisis. The dress of these agitators speak nothing about bloody revolution as did the "red cap" and slouch hat of the political reformers of ...
— The Youthful Wanderer - An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany • George H. Heffner
... night I knew that a stealthy foot had gone past my door. I rose and threw a mantle round me; I put on my head my cap of fur; I took the tempered blade in my hands; then crept out into the dark, and followed. Ul-Jabal carried a small lantern which revealed him to me. My feet were bare, but he wore felted slippers, which to my unfailing ear were not utterly noiseless. He descended the stairs to the ...
— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel
... cracked walls are bare and not clean. In one of the beds are two children, sleeping soundly, and on the foot of it is a middle-aged woman, in a soiled woolen gown with a thin figured shawl drawn about her shoulders, a dirty cap half concealing her frowzy hair; she looks tired and worn and sleepy. On the other bed lies a girl of twenty years, a woman in experience. The kerosene lamp on the stand at the head of the bed casts a spectral light on her flushed face, and the thin arms that are restlessly thrown ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... morning's sun sees thousands who pass whistling to their toil. But Villon was the "mauvais pauvre" defined by Victor Hugo, and, in its English expression, so admirably stereotyped by Dickens. He was the first wicked sans-culotte. He is the man of genius with the moleskin cap. He is mighty pathetic and beseeching here in the street, but I would not go down a dark road with him ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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