<B>caption, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a title under a picture explaining it or a title at the head of a page, chapter, poem, or the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>a subtitle in motion pictures or on a television screen. <DD><B> 3. </B>the part of a legal document which gives the time, place, or authority for the document. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to put a caption on. <BR> <I>Ex. an effective poem ... captioned 'The Song of the Innuit' (Science).</I> adj. <B>captionless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="captious">
<B>captious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>hard to please; faultfinding. <BR> <I>Ex. The captious might have regarded our journey as a retreat from Sweden, but we veterans regarded it as a surprise attack on Paris (Atlantic).</I> (SYN) caviling, carping. <DD><B> 2. </B>apt or designed to entrap or entangle by subtlety. <BR> <I>Ex. captious arguments.</I> adv. <B>captiously.</B> noun <B>captiousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="captivate">
<B>captivate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-vated,</B> <B>-vating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to hold captive by beauty or interest; charm; fascinate. <BR> <I>Ex. The children were captivated by the story of Peter Pan. The prima donna captivated the audience.</I> (SYN) enchant, entrance. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to capture. adv. <B>captivatingly.</B> noun <B>captivator.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="captivation">
<B>captivation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a captivating or being captivated. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) charm; fascination. <BR> <I>Ex. the arts which ladies ... employ for captivation (Jane Austen).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="captivative">
<B>captivative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fitted or tending to captivate. </DL>
<A NAME="captive">
<B>captive, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or animal captured and held against his will; prisoner. <BR> <I>Ex. The pirates took many captives and sold them as slaves.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person charmed or enslaved as by beauty or love. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>made a prisoner; held against one's will; confined. <BR> <I>Ex. The captive rabbits were shut up in a cage.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) captivated. <BR> <I>Ex. The captive spectators sat spellbound before the tightrope walker.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>owned and controlled by a parent company for the use of the latter. <BR> <I>Ex. This steel company owns and operates a captive coal mine.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of or belonging to a captive. </DL>
<A NAME="captiveaudience">
<B>captive audience,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of persons involuntarily subjected to an advertising appeal or other message. </DL>
<A NAME="captiveballoon">
<B>captive balloon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a balloon secured and controlled by a rope or cable to the ground. </DL>
<A NAME="captivebolt">
<B>captive bolt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bolt or rod in a special gun used for stunning animals to be slaughtered. <DD><B> 2. </B>the gun. </DL>
<A NAME="captivefiring">
<B>captive firing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ground test of a bolted-down missile or rocket engine. </DL>
<A NAME="captivity">
<B>captivity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of being in prison. <BR> <I>Ex. Captivity weakened his will to fight.</I> (SYN) imprisonment. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being held against one's will. <BR> <I>Ex. Some animals cannot bear captivity, and die after a few weeks in a cage.</I> (SYN) bondage, servitude, slavery. </DL>
<B>captor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who takes or holds a prisoner. <BR> <I>Ex. His captors guarded the bear in a garage until the circus people arrived.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="captress">
<B>captress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a female captor. </DL>
<A NAME="capture">
<B>capture, </B>verb, <B>-tured,</B> <B>-turing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make a prisoner of; take by force, skill, or trickery; seize. <BR> <I>Ex. We captured butterflies with a net.</I> (SYN) apprehend. <DD><B> 2. </B>to attract and hold; catch and keep. <BR> <I>Ex. The magician's tricks captured the boy's attention.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Nuclear Physics.) (of an atomic nucleus) to cause the capture of (an elementary particle). <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or thing taken in this way. <BR> <I>Ex. The first capture of the day was a python for an American zoo. ... was ordered to collect the prisoners and bring them with all his captures to Scapa (Sunday Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a capturing or a being captured. <BR> <I>Ex. With the capture of the escaped lion everyone in town felt relieved.</I> (SYN) seizure, arrest, apprehension. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Nuclear Physics.) the process by which an atomic nucleus absorbs or acquires an additional elementary particle, especially a neutron, often resulting in emission of radiation or fission of the nucleus. <DD><B> 4. </B>retrieval of information stored in a computer memory bank. adj. <B>capturable.</B> noun <B>capturer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="capuche">
<B>capuche, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a long, pointed cowl, such as that worn by the Capuchins. </DL>
<A NAME="capuchin">
<B>Capuchin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Franciscan friar belonging to an order that wears a long, pointed hood or cowl; Friar Minor Capuchin. </DL>
<A NAME="capuchin">
<B>capuchin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a South American monkey with black hair on its head that looks like a hood; sapajou. <DD><B> 2. </B>a woman's cloak with a hood. </DL>
<B>Capulet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of Juliet's family in Shakespeare's play <I>Romeo and Juliet.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caput">
<B>caput, </B>noun, pl. <B>capita.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) head. </DL>
<A NAME="caputmortuum">
<B>caput mortuum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>(formerly) the residuum of chemicals after distillation or sublimation. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any worthless residue. </DL>
<A NAME="capybara">
<B>capybara, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rodent of South America. It is the world's largest extant rodent, up to 4 feet long and 2 feet high, and has a very short tail. Capybaras are aquatic animals. Also, <B>capibara.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="car">
<B>car, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an automobile. <BR> <I>Ex. They made the trip by car. Motorcycles and cars were halted, but buses were able to continue (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a railroad vehicle for freight or passengers. <BR> <I>Ex. a Pullman car.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any vehicle that runs on rails. <BR> <I>Ex. A streetcar is often called a car.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>any vehicle that moves on wheels. <BR> <I>Ex. A carriage or cart is sometimes called a car.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>carload. <DD><B> 5a. </B>the closed platform of a balloon or airship, for carrying passengers or cargo. <DD><B> b. </B>(U.S.) the cage of an elevator. <DD><B> 6. </B>a chariot. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the gilded car of Day (Milton).</I> adj. <B>carless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="car">
<B>CAR</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Civil Air Regulations. </DL>
<A NAME="carabao">
<B>carabao, </B>noun, pl. <B>-baos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the water buffalo of the Philippine Islands, now commonly domesticated. </DL>
<A NAME="carabidbeetle">
<B>carabid beetle, =ground beetle.</B></DL>
<A NAME="carabin">
<B>carabin, </B>noun. <B>=carbine.</B></DL>
<A NAME="carabine">
<B>carabine, </B>noun. <B>=carbine.</B></DL>
<A NAME="carabineer">
<B>carabineer</B> or <B>carabinier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cavalry soldier armed with a carbine (in former times). Also, <B>carbineer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carabinero">
<B>carabinero, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ros.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in Spain) a carbineer. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in the Philippines) a soldier appointed to prevent smuggling; a custom-house guard or coast guard. </DL>
<A NAME="carabiniere">
<B>carabiniere, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ri.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an Italian policeman. </DL>
<A NAME="caracal">
<B>caracal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small lynx of Asia and Africa, of a reddish-brown color, having a tuft of long, black hair at the tip of each ear; Persian lynx. </DL>
<A NAME="caracara">
<B>caracara, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several vulturelike hawks found in tropical and subtropical America. Audubon's caracara is the national emblem of Mexico. </DL>
<B>caracole, </B>noun, verb, <B>-coled,</B> <B>-coling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a half turn to the right or left, made by a horse and rider. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the turns made by a horse in prancing on a zigzag course. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to move in a series of half turns; prance from side to side. <BR> <I>Ex. Theirs are huge and heartshaped monsters ... glossy black as the black patent leather pumps in which we once caracoled in society's exclusive cotillions (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caracul">
<B>caracul, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a type of short, flat, loose, curly fur made from the skin of newborn or very young lambs of a breed of robust, fat-tailed Asian sheep. <DD><B> 2. </B>any sheep of this breed. <DD><B> 3. </B>a name sometimes applied to the skins of young goats. Also <B>karakul.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carafe">
<B>carafe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a glass bottle, especially an ornamental one, for holding water, wine, coffee, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The "snack bars" ... [of Paris] sell hot dogs and hamburgers with carafes of vin ordinaire (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caragana">
<B>caragana, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of leguminous trees or shrubs native to China and Siberia, having feathery pale-green foliage and yellow flowers appearing in early spring. </DL>
<A NAME="carageen">
<B>carageen, </B>noun. <B>=carrageen.</B></DL>
<A NAME="caraguata">
<B>caraguata, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plant of the pineapple family found in Paraguay and Argentina, which yields a long silky fiber used especially in making cordage and sacks. </DL>
<A NAME="caramba">
<B>caramba, </B>interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Spanish.) an exclamation of dismay, anger, or surprise. </DL>
<A NAME="carambola">
<B>carambola, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the acid fruit of a small East Indian tree. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tree itself. </DL>
