Part 1627

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle,</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.</def>

<cs><col>Atrabiliary capsule</col>. <cd>See under <er>Atrabiliary</er>.</cd> -- <col>Glisson's capsule</col>, <cd>a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ.</cd> -- <col>Suprarenal capsule</col>, <cd>an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.</cd></cs>

<h1>Captain</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"tain</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>capitain</ets>, <ets>captain</ets>, OF. <ets>capitain</ets>, F. <ets>capitaine</ets> (cf. Sp. <ets>capitan</ets>, It. <ets>capitano</ets>), LL. <ets>capitaneus</ets>, <ets>capitanus</ets>, fr. L. <ets>caput</ets> the head. See under <er>Chief</er>, and cf. <er>Chieftain</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A head, or chief officer</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.</def> <sd>(d)</sd> <def>The <i>master</i> or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.</def> <sd>(e)</sd> <def>One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; <as>as, a <ex>captain</ex> of a top, <ex>captain</ex> of a gun, etc.</as></def> <sd>(f)</sd> <def>The foreman of a body of workmen.</def> <sd>(g)</sd> <def>A person having authority over others acting in concert; <as>as, the <ex>captain</ex> of a boat's crew; the <ex>captain</ex> of a football team.</as></def>

<blockquote>A trainband <b>captain</b> eke was he. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Rhodian <b>captain</b>, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A military leader; a warrior.</def>

<blockquote>Foremost <b>captain</b> of his time. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Captain general</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands.</cd> -- <col>Captain lieutenant</col>, <cd>a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.</cd></cs>

<h1>Captain</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"tain</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To act as captain of; to lead.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Men who <b>captained</b> or accompanied the exodus from existing forms.

<i>Lowell</i>.

<h1>Captain</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"tain</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Chief; superior.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>captain</b> jewes in the carcanet. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Captaincy</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"tain*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <er>Captaincies</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>The rank, post, or commission of a captain.</def>

<i>Washington.</i>

<cs><col>Captaincy general</col>, <cd>the office, power, teritory, or jurisdiction of a captain general; as, the <i>captaincy general<i> of La Habana (Cuba and its islands).</cd></cs>

<h1>Captainry</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"tain*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>capitainerie</ets>.]</ety> <def>Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Captainship</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"tain*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander.</def> "To take the <i>captainship</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Military skill; <as>as, to show good <ex>captainship</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Captation</h1> <Xpage=215>