cap paper (kappa"per)

1. A coarse paper, so called from being used to make caps to hold commodities.-2. A kind of writing-paper in large sheets. See cap1, n., 3. caponnière 4 or 5 feet into a ditch for its defense, encompa ed with a parapet about 2 feet high, serving to support several planks laden with earth. (b) A pa age from one part of a work to another, protected on the right and left by a wall or parapet, and sometimes covered overhead. When there is a parapet on one side only, it is called a dem i - caponiere. (c) One of a series of lated to the Cruciferæ, from which they differ in having six or more stamens which are not tetradynamous, the pod without a partition and often stalked, and kidney-shaped seeds with a coiled embryo. They are natives chiefly of tropical and subtropical regions, and po e more or le acrid qualities. The principal genera are Cap paris and Cleome. Some species of Gynandropsis and Pol an is i a, genera of this order, are cultivated for ornament. See cuts IMG:content-3099.png:[blocks in formation] cannon which fire through embrasures pierced capparidaceous (kap"a-ri-dā'shius), a. Per- in the front or mask-wall of the casemates: taining to the Capparidaceæ . used for flanking ditches. Mahan . - Double cacapparideous (kap-a-rid'ē-us), a. Same as poniere, in fort ., a ditch-defense arranged for flanking capparidaceous . purposes. The double caponiere is generally placed in caponize (kā'pon-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. ca- ponized , ppr. caponizing . [ the name Salmo arctic us , now known as Mallotus make a capon of. Also spelled caponise . villosus , and a igned to the smelt family, Ar- gentinidæ. It is 6 or 8 inches long, and resembles a smelt in appearance, but is more closely related to the Caplin ( Mallotus villosus). eulachon or candle-fish, from which it differs chiefly in the broader many-rayed pectoral fins and the peculiar scales of the male. In that sex there is a raised band along the sides of the body above the lateral line, con sisting of elongated imbricated scales with free project ing points, giving a villous appearance like the pile of vel vet. The caplin occurs in immense shoals in all the north ern seas, and is an important food-fish to the natives, though its chief use is as bait for cod.