Part 1630

<hw>Cap"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a cather (of animals), fr. <ets>caper</ets> to take.]</ety> <def>One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.</def>

<h1>Capture</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"ture</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>capture</ets>, fr. <ets>caper</ets> to take: cf. F. <ets>capture</ets>. See <er>Caitiff</er>, and cf. <er>aptive</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; <as>as, the <ex>capture</ex> of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Even with regard to <b>captures</b> made at sea. <i>Bluckstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Seizure; apprehension; arrest; detention.</syn>

<h1>Capture</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"ture</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Captured</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Capturing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.</def>

<blockquote>Her heart is like some fortress that has been <b>captured</b>. <i>W. Ivring.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Capuccio</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Ca*puc"cio</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>cappucio</ets>. See <er>Capoch</er>.]</ety> <def>A capoch or hood.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Capuched</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Ca*puched"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Capoch</er>.]</ety> <def>Cover with, or as with, a hood.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Capuchin</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap`u*chin"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>capucin</ets> a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. <ets>cappuccio</ets> hood. See <er>Capoch</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.</def>

<blockquote>A bare-footed and long-bearded <b>capuchin</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of <i>capuchin</i> monks.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A long-tailed South American monkey (<spn>Cabus capucinus</spn>), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also <altname>capucine monkey</altname>, <altname>weeper</altname>, <altname>sajou</altname>, <altname>sapajou</altname>, and <altname>sai</altname>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Other species of <spn>Cabus</spn>, as <spn>C. fatuellus</spn> (the <i>brown</i> or <stype>horned capucine</stype>.), <spn>C. albifrons</spn> (the <stype>cararara</stype>), and <spn>C. apella</spn>.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.</def>

<cs><col>Capuchin nun</col>, <cd>one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.</cd></cs>

<h1>Capucine</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"u*cine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Capuchin</er>, 3.</def>

<h1>Capulet</h1> <Xpage=215>

<hw>Cap"u*let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Capellet</er>.</def>