Capillary, a. Fine (like a hair), slender, minute, delicate, filiform.
Capital, a.
- 1. Chief, principal, leading, essential, cardinal, first in importance.
- 2. Fatal, forfeiting life, involving death.
- 3. (Colloq.) Excellent, good, prime, first-rate, first-class.
Capital, n.
- 1. Metropolis, chief city or town.
- 2. Large letter, capital letter.
- 3. Stock, sum invested.
- 4. (Arch.) Head of a column, pillar, or pilaster.
Capital crime. Crime punishable with death.
Capitalist, n. Investor, man of means, holder of surplus wealth, person of large resources.
Capital letter. Capital, large letter.
Capital punishment. Punishment or penalty of death, death-penalty.
Capitation tax. Poll tax.
Capitulate, v. n. Surrender (by treaty), yield on conditions.
Capitulation, n. Surrender (by treaty).
Caprice, n. Whim, freak, fancy, humor, crotchet, maggot, quirk, vagary, whimsey, whim-wham.
Capricious, a. Whimsical, fanciful, fantastical, crotchety, humorsome, wayward, odd, queer, fitful, freakish, changeable, uncertain, fickle, variable.
Capsicum, n. Cayenne, cayenne pepper, red pepper.
Capsize, v. a. Upset, overturn.
Capsule, n.
- 1. Case, wrapper, envelope, covering, shell, sheath.
- 2. (Bot.) Pod, pericarp, seed-vessel.