caperlash (kaperlash)

[E. dial.] Abusive language. Hall i well. [North. Eng.] caper longer (kā-per-long'ger), n. [It. cappa longa (now lung a ), pl. " cappelonghe, a kinde of long skallops or cockles" (Florio): cappa, a cape; longa, lung a, fem. of longo, lungo, long: see capel and long1.] A bivalve mollusk of the family Pinnida or wing-shells, Pinna pectin at a, IMG:content-3086.png:[blocks in formation] In the self same place a Temple was erected,. which the Arabians would not suffer us to ascend,.. untill we had payed the caphar they demanded. Sandys , Travailes (1652), p. 135. capias (kā'pi-as), n . [L., take (impv.), 2d pers. sing. pres. subj. (an impv. use) of capere , take: see capable .] In law , a writ in a civil action directing that the person of the defendant be taken into custody. The commonest kinds are the capias ad respondendum (take to answer), which is i ued to arrest before judgment (this is the usual sense when the word capias is used alone), and the capias ad satisfaciendum (take to satisfy, usually abbreviated to ca. sa.), which is i ued after judgment, for execution against the person. A testatum capias was a second or further writ, allowed in certain cases where the return of the first attested the absence of the defendant.