cap2 (kap)

[Same as cop2 = E. cup, q. v.] Also caup. [Scotch.] cap3 (kap), v. t.; pret. and pp. capped, ppr. cap ping. [D. kapen (= Sw. kapa ), seize, catch, make prize of, as a privateer or pirate (> D. kaap, privateering); appar. Twelve shillings you must pay, or I must cap you. Beau , and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2. Ralph has friends that will not suffer him to be capt for ten times so much. Beau, and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2. 2. To seize; lay hold of violently; specifically, Give a cap and make a leg in thanks. 7. A cap-sheaf (which see).-8. pl . Fungi. [Prov. Eng.] -91. A cape. See capel . A feather in one's cap. See feather . Belt-rail cap. See belt-rail. - Black cap. (a) The cap worn by a judge when to seize (a ve el) as a prize; hence, to entrap pa ing sentence of death. [British.] (6) The cap drawn or insnare. [Scotch and prov. Eng.] over the head of a criminal immediately before he is cap4 (kap), v. i.; pret. and pp. capped , ppr. hanged.-Cap copped, in her . , a by cocket used as a bearing.- Cap in crown, in her ., the cap within the rim or capping . [Una ibilated form of chap1 , chop1 , circle of the crown, and covering the head. Such caps q. v.] 1. To chap, as the hands.-2. To wrinare represented of different colors, which are mentioned kle.-3. To coagulate. [Prov. Eng.] (-tiz). [ There are nations in the East so enslaved by custom that they seem to have lost all power of change except the ca pability of being destroyed. W. K. Clifford , Lectures, I. 105. We have arrived at the stage where new capabilities are no longer imperiously demanded by the advancement of culture. Welsh, Eng. Lit., I. 296.