<B>caparison, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an ornamental covering for a horse. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any rich dress or outfit. (SYN) equipment. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to dress richly. <BR> <I>Ex. Gaily caparisoned pedal rickshaws mingle with motor traffic in Dacca (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Capcom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the person at a space flight center who is in charge of maintaining communications with an astronaut during a space flight. </DL>
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<B>cape</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an outer garment, or part of one, without sleeves, worn falling loosely from the shoulders, and often fastened at the neck. </DL>
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<B>cape</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a point of land extending into the water. (Abbr:) C. (SYN) headland, promontory. </DL>
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<B>cape</B> (3), noun. <B>=capeskin.</B></DL>
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<B>cape</B> (4), transitive verb, <B>caped,</B> <B>caping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to excite or distract (the bull) or to draw (it) into a desired position, by fluttering or waving a red cape. <BR> <I>Ex. When ... the picador was set with his lance, Cascabel began to cape the bull over into ... position (Barnaby Conrad).</I> </DL>
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<B>capeador, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dors,</B> <B>-dores.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the person who excites the bull and distracts his attention by using a red cape. </DL>
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<B>Cape boy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a South African of mixed descent. </DL>
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<B>Cape buffalo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, fierce, black buffalo of southern Africa. Cape buffalo have horns united at their bases to form a large, bony plate on the front of the head. </DL>
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<B>Cape canary,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small greenish or greenish-yellow bird of southern Africa with a soft, pleasant buzzing song. </DL>
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<B>Cape cart,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a two-wheeled, hooded vehicle of southern Africa, with two seats, drawn by two or more horses and capable of carrying fourpeople. <BR> <I>Ex. The Cape cart ... is much like an American buggy, but larger and stronger (E. E. K. Lowndes).</I> </DL>
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<B>cape chisel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a narrow cold chisel with a gradual taper on both top and bottom of the blade, used for cutting grooves or slots in metal. </DL>
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<B>Cape Cod,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>designating a type of rectangular house consisting of one or one-and-a-half stories and usually having a steep gable roof and a central chimney. <BR> <I>Ex. a Cape Cod dwelling, house, or cottage.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>this type of house. <BR> <I>Ex. The Cape Cod will be available with either two, three or four bedrooms (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Cape Colored,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in South Africa) a person of mixed white and other ancestry. <BR> <I>Ex. Alongside the Bantus live 300,000 Indians, most of them shopkeepers and plantation laborers in sugar-growing Natal, and 1,100,000 Cape Colored, i.e., mulattoes, coffee-colored descendants of early Boer settlers (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>Cape cowslip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a large group of plants of the lily family native to southern Africa, having red or yellow flowers on a leafless stem. </DL>
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<B>Cape crawfish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the spiny lobster of southern Africa. </DL>
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<B>caped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a cape. <BR> <I>Ex. Quaintly attired in caped cloak, knee-breeches, and buckled shoes (Thomas Hardy).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>wearing a cape. </DL>
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<B>Cape doctor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in southern Africa) a strong southeasterly wind. <BR> <I>Ex. That rough but benevolent southeast wind, which, owing to its kindly property of sweeping away the germs of disease, is called 'the Cape doctor' (Annie Martin).</I> </DL>
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<B>Cape Dutch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>South Africans of Dutch extraction. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Dutch spoken in South Africa; Afrikaans. <BR> <I>Ex. This ... language is the 'Cape Dutch' or 'taal,' the servants' language throughout the country, which Boer and Hottentot speak alike (Beatrice M. Hicks).</I> </DL>
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<B>Cape glove,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a capeskin glove. </DL>
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<B>Cape gooseberry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a straggling bush, extensively cultivated in southern Africa, which produces a berry resembling the gooseberry. <DD><B> 2. </B>the berry. </DL>
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<B>Cape hartebeest,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large heartebeest of southern Africa with a reddish-brown coat and white rump patch, that can run very fast. </DL>
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<B>Cape jasmine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a widely cultivated gardenia native to China, with evergreen leaves and a fragrance similar to that of jasmine. </DL>
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<B>capelet</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fur piece for women made in the style of a small cape to cover the shoulders. </DL>
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<B>capelet</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wenlike swelling on the heel of a horse's hock, or on the point of the elbow. </DL>
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<B>capelin, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lins</B> or (collectively) <B>-lin.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small fish of the north Atlantic, used for food and as bait for cod; a kind of smelt. Also, <B>caplin.</B> </DL>
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<B>capeline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a woman's hat that has a soft, usually wide, brim. <BR> <I>Ex. ... capelines with great wavy brims raised to aureole the face (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a surgical bandage which by its arrangement forms a kind of cap or bonnet. <DD><B> 3. </B>a small skullcap of iron worn by archers in the Middle Ages. </DL>
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<B>Capella, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the brightest star in the constellation Auriga, one of the six brightest stars in the sky. <BR> <I>Ex. It has been known for several decades that Capella is composed of two giant stars of about equal brightness (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<B>caper</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to leap or jump about playfully. <BR> <I>Ex. The court jester capered and danced before the king.</I> (SYN) skip, spring, cavort. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a playful leap or jump. <BR> <I>Ex. The boy's caper cost him a twisted ankle.</I> (SYN) gambol, prance. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a prank; trick. <BR> <I>Ex. The child's Halloween capers made the neighbors laugh.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) an illegal or criminal scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. He holes up to plan his next caper--the stick-up of the exclusive Tropico Hotel (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>cut a caper</B> (or <B>capers</B>), <DD><B> a. </B>to play or do a trick. </I> <I>Ex. to cut a caper on the straight rope (Jonathan Swift).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to dance, leap, or jump about playfully. <BR> <I>Ex. He can dance, though he does not cut capers (Sir Richard Steele).</I> noun <B>caperer.</B> </DL>
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<B>caper</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a low, prickly shrub native to the Mediterranean region and growing in southern United States. It is sometimes grown elsewhere in the United States and Canada as a tender annual. <BR> <I>Ex. The pungent, slightly bitter flower buds of the caper bush are a timely seasoning because they enhance not only lamb but also many warm-weather foods (New York Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>capers,</B> </I>the green flower buds or berries of this shrub, pickled and used for seasoning. <BR> <I>Ex. chicken salad sprinkled with capers.</I> </DL>
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<B>caper</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=privateer.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>the captain of a privateer. </DL>
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<B>capercaillie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large grouse of northern Europe; wood grouse. </DL>
<B>caper family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous, tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs, differing from the closely related mustard familyin bearing a pod without a partition and kidney-shaped seeds with a coiled embryo. The family includes the caper and cleome. </DL>
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<B>Capernaism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the literal interpretation of transubstantiation held by the Capernaites. </DL>
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<B>Capernaite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an inhabitant of Capernaum, a city in ancient Palestine. <DD><B> 2. </B>a believer in transubstantiation, especially one who, from the words of Jesus in Capernaum, adheres to the doctrine of transubstantiation in its literal form (In the Bible, John 6:53-59). </DL>
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<B>capersome, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> given to capering. <BR> <I>Ex. I've never seen a cat ... more capersome (Charles Heavysege).</I> </DL>
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<B>Cape ruby,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a garnet resembling a ruby in color; pyrope. </DL>
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<B>capes, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><B> 1. </B>grains of corn to which the husk continues to adhere after threshing. <DD><B> 2. </B>grain which is not sufficiently ground. <DD><B> 3. </B>flakes of meal which come from the mill when the grain has not been sufficiently dried. </DL>
<B>Cape seal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fur seal living in waters off the Cape of Good Hope. </DL>
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<B>capeskin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a smooth, durable leather made from the skin of lambs or sheep, used in making gloves, jackets, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Best sellers in gloves are washable capeskins and pigskins (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a heavy, durable leather from goats of the Cape district of South Africa, used for gloves. </DL>
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<B>Capetian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Hugh Capet or the kings named Capet who reigned over France from 987 to 1328. <DD><I>noun </I> a ruler who belonged to this dynasty. </DL>
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<B>Capetonian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of Cape Town, in the Republic of South Africa. </DL>
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<B>capework, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the practice or art of caping a bull. <BR> <I>Ex. Such dazzling displays of capework by the splendidly dressed matadors ... (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>capful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> as much as a cap will contain. <BR> <I>Ex. He picked a capful of berries.</I> </DL>
