thole of the other forts are thin and tough. The pods are from an inch to an inch and an half or two inches long; are very large, fwelling, and wrinkled, flatted at the top, where they are angalar, and fometimes ftand erect, at others grow downward. it; for it occafions fuch violent fits of fneezing, as may break the blood veffels of the head.. CAPSQUARES, ftrong plates of iron which cover the trunnions of a gun, and keep it in the carriage. They are faftened by a hinge to the prize-plate, that they may lift up and down, and form a part of an arch in the middle to receive a third part of the thickness of the trunnions; for two thirds are let into the carriage, and the other end is fastened by two iron wadges called the forelocks and keys. (1.) CAPSTAN. n. f. [corruptly called capfern; cabeftan, Fr.] A cylinder, with levers to wind up any great weight, particularly to raise the anchors.-The weighing of anchors by the caplan, is alfo new. Raleigh's Effays. (IL) CAPSICUM, CULTURE AND USES OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF. The 2d, 3d, and roth Species are annual plants, and must be propagatal by feeds fown on a hot-bed in fpring, and treated as other exotics; they will, however, bear the open air, after being inured to it by degrees. The plants of the TETRAGONUM fhould be taken from the hot bed, and planted in a rich spot of ground, in a warm fituation, about 14 foot afunder. They must be thaded till they have taken root, and afterwards duly watered in dry weather, which will promote their growth and fertility, and enlarge the fize of the fruit. By this management, 3 or 4 crops for pickling may be obtained in one. year. The other forts are more tender; and therefore must be planted in pots plunged in a moderate hot-bed, and fheltered under a frame. The fruit of the tetragonum must be gathered before they arrive at their full fize, while the rind is tender. They must be flit down on one fide to get out the feeds, after which they fhould be foaked fome days in falt and water; when taken out and drained, boiling vinegar must be poured on them in a fufficient quantity to cover them, and clofely topped for two months; then they fhould be boed in the vinegar to make them green; but tary want no addition of any fpices and are the wholefumeft and beft pickle in the world. The hfpecies is ufed for making what is called cayanar, or pepper-pots, by the inhabitants of Ame, and which they esteem the best of all the pices. The following is a receipt for making a Pepper-pot: "Take the ripe feeds of the CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS, and dry them well in the fun; then put them into an earthen pot, mixing flour between every ftratum of pods; put them into ven after the baking of bread, that they may be thoroughly dried; after which they must be We cleanfed from the flour; and if any of the faks remain adhering to the pods, they should be taken off, and the pods reduced to a fine powder to every ounce of this add a pound of wheat for, and as much leaven as is fufficient for the quantity intended. After this has been properly ixed and wrought, it fhould be made into fmall cakes, and baked in the fame manner as common cikes of the fame fize; then cut into finall parts, and baked again, that they may be as dry and hard as bifcuit; which being powdered and lifted, is to be kept for ufe." This is prodigiouly hot d acrimonious, fetting the mouth as it were fire. It is coinmended as a medicine for flabut perhaps fuch hot irritating medicines do more harm than good. If the ripe pods of capsicum are thrown into the fire, they will raife ftrong and noifome vapours, which occafion vehement incezing, coughing, and often vomit, in thofe who are near the place, or in the room where they are burnt. Some have mixed the powder of the pods with foufi, to give to odanger in ufing talencies; ters for diverfion: but there No more behold thee turn my watch's key, As feamen at a capftan anchors weigh. Swift. (2.) CAPSTAN, a large maffy column, shaped like a truncated cone, and placed perpendicularly on the deck of a fhip, and turned by levers, or bars. which pafs through holes pierced in its upper extremity; ferving, by means of a cable which winds round the barrel to draw up burdens faftened to the end of the cable. See Plate LX. The power of the caplan is reducible to that of the axis in peritrockio. De Camus confiders the capftan as a perpetual lever. By it vefiels are drawn ashore, and hoifted up to be refitted; fails hoifted, &c. There are commonly two capftans in a fhip of war: the main capfan placed behind the main maft ftanding on the first deck, and reaching 4 or 5 feet above the fecond; this is alfo called double capflan, because it has two drumheads, and ferves two decks for drawing anchors; and because its force may be doubled by applying hands on each deck. It has bars, whelps, &c. for turning and stopping it: see fig. 3. The jeer capftan, or little capftan, ftands on the fecond deck, between the main maft and the mizen: its ufe is chiefly to heave upon the jeer-rope, or to heave upon the viol, to hold off by, when the anchor is weighed; and on other occafions where a lefs force is required than to weigh the anchors, &c. See fig. 2. The French call that an English capftan where there are only half bars ufed; and which, for that reafon, is only half perforated: this is thicker than the others. There is alfo a flying capslan, which may be moved from place to place. The parts of a capftan are, the foot d, fig. 2. which is the loweft part; the spindle f, the fmalleft part of which turns round in an iron focket, called the facuer: the helps, bb, a fort of brackets fet into the body of the capitan clofe under the bars, and reaching downwards from the lower part of the drum-head to the deck; the barrel A, the main body of the whole: the drum-head e, a broad cy lindric piece of wood fixed above the barrel and whelps, in which are the holes for the bars to be put into: the bars are small pieces of timber by which the men heave: the pins e, are little bolts of iron, thruft perpendicularly through the holes of the drum-head, and through a correfponding hole in the end of the bar, made to receive them when the bars are fixed: the powls are pieces of iron boited to one end of the beams of the deck, clofe to the body of the capitan, but fo as that it has liberty liberty to turn about every way, and against them do the whelps of the capftan bear: fo as that by them the capftan may be ftopped from turning back. There are alfo hanging pawls g, g, fig. 3. which reach from the deck above the drum-head immediately beneath it. The swifter is a rope paffed horizontally through holes in the outer ends of the bars and drawn tight, to keep the men fteady whilft they work, and afford room for a greater number to work at once. Formerly the bars of the capftan went entirely through the head of it, and confequently were more than double the length of the prefent ones; the holes were therefore formed at different heights, as reprefented in fig. 1. But this machine had feveral inconveniences, and has long been entirely difufed in the navy. Some of this fort of capftans however, are still retained in merchant fhips, and are ufually denoted crabs. The fituation of the bars in a crab, as ready for heaving, is reprefented in fig. 4. (3.) CAPSTAN, TERMS USED RESPECTING THE. Rig the capftan fignifies fix the bars in their refpective holes; beave the capflan, go round with it, heaving on the bars: furge the capftan, and come up capftan, mean flacken the cable which you heave by; in a like sense they also fay, launch the capftan: pawl out the capftan, fignifies, ftop it from going back. CAPSTAND, and CAPSTOW, are all various CAPSTERN, Š fpellings of CAPSTAN. CAPSULA. See BOTANY, Index. CAPSULE ATRABILARIE, called allo glandule renales, and renes fuccenturiati. See ANATOMY, 306. CAPSULAR. adj. [capfula, Lat] Hollow * CAPSULARY. like a cheft.-It afcendeth not directly unto the throat, but afcending first into a capfulary reception of the breaft-bone, it afcendeth again into the neck. Brown. *CAPSULATE. adj. [capfula, Lat.] Inclo*CAPSULATED. fed, or in a box.-Seeds fuch as are corrupted and ftale, will fwim; and this agreeth unto the feeds of plants locked up and capfulated in their hufks. Brown's Vulgar ErTours. The heart lies immured, or capfulated, in a cartilage, which includes the heart, as the skull doth the brain. Derham. CAPSULE, a receptacle in form of a bag. (1.) * CAPTAIN. n. f. [capitain, Fr. in Latin capitaneus; being one of thofe who, by tenure in capite, were obliged to bring foldiers to the war.] 1. A chief commander. Difmay'd not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Shakefp. 2. The chief of any number or body of men.Nafhan fhall be captain of Judah. Numbers. 3. A man fkilled in war; as Marlborough was a great captain. 4. The commander of a company in a a regiment-A captain! thefe villains will make the name of captain as odious as the word occupy; therefore captains had need look to it, Shakespeare's Henry IV. The grim captain, in a furly tone, Cries out, Pack up, ye rafcals, and be gone! Dryden. 5. The chief commander of a fhip.--The Rhodicaptain relying on his knowledge, and the lightness of his veffel, paffed in open day, through all the guards. Arbuthnot on Coins. 6. It was an. ciently written capitain round. And evermore their cruel capitain Sought, with his rafcal routs t'enclose them Fairy Queen. 7. Captain General. The general or commander in chief of an army. 8. Captain Lieutenant. The commanding officer of the colonel's troop or company, in every regiment. He commands as young. eft captain. (2.) CAPTAIN BASHAW, Or CAPONDAN BASHAW, in the polity of the Turks, fignifies the Turkish high admiral. He poffeffes the 3d office of the empire, and is invested with the fame power at fea that the vizir has on fhore. He has abfolute authority over the officers of the marine and ar fenal, whom he may punish, cashier, or put to death, as foon as he is without the Dardanelles. He commands in chief in all the maritime coun tries, cities, caftles, &c. and at Conftantinople, is the first magiftrate of police in the villages on the fide of the Porte, and the canal of the Black Sea. The mark of his authority is a large Indian cane, which he carries in bis hand, both in the arfenal and with the army. He enjoys two forts of revenues; the one fixed, the other cafual. The first arifes from a capitation of the islands in the Archipelago, and certain governments in Na tolia and Galipoli. The latter confifts in the pay of all men who die during a campaign; in a fifth of all prizes made by the begs; in the profits ac cruing from the labour of the flaves, whom he hires as rowers to the grand fignior; and in the contributions he exacts in all places where he pafles. (3.) CAPTAIN LIEUTENANT, (1. def. 8.) he who, with the rank of captain, but the pay lieutenant, commands a troop or company in the name of fome other perfon, who is difpenfed with on account of his quality from performing the functions of his poft. Thus the colonel being ufually captain of the first company of his regi ment, that company is commanded by his depu ty as captain lieutenant. (4-) CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY OR TROOP, an inferior officer who tommands a company of foot, or a troop of horse, under a colonel. The duty of this officer is to be careful to keep his company full of able-bodied foldiers; to vifit their tents and lodg ings, to fee what is wanting; to pay them well; to caufe them to keep themselves neat and clean in their clothes, and their arms bright, He has power in his own company to make ferjeants, corpora s and lanfpefades. In the horfe and foot guards, the captains have the rank of lieutenant colonels. (5.) CAPTAIN OF A MERCHANT SHIP, he who has the direction of the fhip, her crew, lading. &c. In fmall fhips, and fhort voyages, he is more ordinarly called the mafter. In the med terranean, he is called the patroon. The propri etor of the veffel appoints the captain or mafter; and he is to form the crew, and choofe and hire the pilots, mates, and feamen; though when the proprietor and mafter refide on the fame fpot, they generally act in concert together. (6.) CAPTAIN OF A SHIP OF WAR, the officer who commands a fhip of the live, or a frigate car rying 20 or more cannon. The charge of a cap *CAPTIOUSLY. adv. [from captious.] In a captious manner; with an inclination to object. Ufe your word as captionfly as you can, in your arguing on one fide, and apply diftinctions on the other. Locke. tain in the royal navy, is very comprehensive, as he is not only anfwerable for any bad conduct in the military government, navigation, and equipment of the fhip he commands, but alfo for any neglect of duty in his inferior officers, whofe fe veral charges he is appointed to fuperintend and regulate. The injunctions laid on him, by the lord high admiral or commiffioners of the admiralty, are extremely ftrict; and when a fhip of war is Jo, whether in confequence of bad weather, the fuperior force of an enemy, or from any other caufe, whether obvious or not, the captain is al. ways tried by a court-martial. This is done that every fact relative to the lofs of the fhip may be fully afcertained, and the conduct of the commander fcrutinized. (7) CAPTAIN REFORMED, one who, upon the reduction of the forces, has his commiffion and company fuppreffed; yet is continued captain, either as fecond to another, or without any command at all. CAPTAINRY... [from captain.] The pow er over a certain diftrict; the chieftainfhip.-There thould be no rewards taken for captainries of counties, no fhares of bishopricks for nominating of bithops. Spenfer. CAPTAINSHIP... from captain.] 1. The condition or poft of a chief commander.Therefore fo please thee to return with us, And of our Athens, thine and ours to take The captainfhip. Shakespeare's Timon. 1. The rank, quality, or poft of a captain-The Leutenant of the colonel's company might well pretend to the next vacant captainship in the fame regiment. Wotton. 3. The chieftainfhip of a clan, or government of a certain diftrict.-To diminish the Irifh lords, he did abolish their pretended and arped captainbios. Davies on Ireland. 4. Skill in the military trade. CAPTATION. n. f. [from casto, Lat.] The practice of catching favour or applaufe; courtthip; flattery.-I am content my heart fhould be covered, without any of thofe dreffes, or popar captations, which fome men ufe in their Sprches King Charles. CAPTEUX, a town of France, in the department of Gironde, and chief place of a canton in the diftrict of Bazas, 3 leagues S. of Bazas. (1) CAPTION. . . [from capio, Lat. to take. The act of taking any perfon by a judicial process. * CAPTIOUSNESS. n.. [from captions.] Inclination to find fault; inclination to object; peevifhnefs.-Captioufnefs is a fault opposite to civility; it often produces mifbecoming and provoking expreffions and carriage. Locke. (1) CAPTION, in Scots law, 1. a writ iffuing under his majefty's figuet, at the inftance of a creditor in a civil debt, commanding meffengers at , &c. to apprehend and imprifon the perfon of the debtor until he pay the debt. 2. A writ fued by the court of Seffion against the agents of the court, to return papers belonging to procelles or law-fuits, or otherwife to go to prifon. CAPTIOUS. adj. [captieux, Fr. captiofus, Lat.] 1. Given to cavils; cager to objc&-If he fhew a forwardness to be reafoning about things, take care, that nobody check this inclination, or miflead it by captious or fallacious ways of talking with him. Locke. 2. Infidious; enfnaring. She taught him likewife how to avoid fundry captions and tempting queftions, which were like to be afked of him. Bacon. *To CAPTIVATE. v. a. [captiver, Fr. captivo, Lat.] To take prifoner; to bring into bondage.— How ill befeeming is it in thy fex, To triumph like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes, whom fortune captivates ? Shakespeare. They ftand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or difturb them. Locke. - 2. To charm; to overpower with excellence; to fubdue. -Wisdom enters the laft, and fo captivate himwith her appearance, that he gives himfelf up to her. Addison, Guardian. 3. To enflave with to.-They lay a trap for themfelves, and captivate their understandings to mistake, falsehood and errour. Locke. * CAPTIVATION. n. f. [from captivate.] The act of taking one captive. (1.) * CAPTIVE. adj. [captivus, Lat.] Made prifoner in war; kept in bondage or confinement, by whatever means.- But fate forbids; the Stygian floods oppofe, And with nine circling ftreams the captive fouls inclose. Dryden. (2.) CAPTIVE. n. f. [captif, Fr. captivus, Lat.] 1. One taken in war; a prifoner to an enemy.--You have the captives, Who were the oppofites of this day's ftrife? Shakespeare. This is that forced refpect a captive pays to his conquerour, a flave to his lord. Rogers. 2. It is ufed with to before the captor.- If thou fay Antony lives, 'tis well, Shakespeare My mother, who the royal fceptre fway'd, Was captive to the cruel victor made. Dryd. 3. One charmed, or enfnared by beauty or excellence.- My woman's heart Grofsly grew captive to his honey words. Shak. (3.) CAPTIVES formerly became the flaves of thofe who took them; and though flavery, fuch as obtained among the ancients, is now abolished, fome fhadow of it ftill remains in respect of priforers of war, who are accounted the property of their captors. The Romans ufed their captives with great barbarity: their necks were expofed to the foldiers to be trampled on, and their perfons afterwards fold by public auction. Captives were frequently burnt in the funeral piles of the ancient warriors, as a facrifice to the infernal gods. Thofe of royal or noble blood had their heads fhaven, and their hair fent to Rome to ferve as decorations for female toys, &c. They were led in triumph, loaded with chains, as far as the foot of the Capitoline mount, for they were not permitted to afcend the facred hill, but carried thence to prifon. Thofe of quality were honoured with golden golden chains on their hands and feet, and golden collars on their necks. If they made their efcape, or killed themfelves, to avoid the ignominy of being carried in triumph, their effigies were frequently carried in their place. *To CAPTIVE. v. a. [from the noun. It was ufed formerly with the accent on the last fyllable, but now it is on the firft.] To take prifoner; to bring into a condition of fervitude.- But being all defeated fave a few, Rather than fly, or be captiv'd, herfelf fhe flew. Spenfer What further fear of danger can there be? Beauty, which captives all things, fets me free. Dryden. Still lay the god: the nymph furpriz'd, Yet, miftrefs of herfelf, devis'd, How fhe the vagrant might inthral, And captive him who captives all. (1.) *CAPTIVITY. n. f. [captivité, Fr. captivitas, low Lat.] 1. Subjection by the fate of war; bondage; fervitude to enemies.- This is the ferieant, Prior. Who, like a good and hardy foldier, fought 'Gainft my captivity. Shak. There in captivity he lets them dwell The space of feventy years; then brings them back; Rememb'ring mercy. Milton. -The name of Ormond will be more celebrated in his captivity, than in his greateft triumphs. Dryden. 2. Slavery; fervitude.-For men to be tied, and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment. Hooker. When love's well timed, 'tis not a fault to love, The frong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wife, Sink in the foft captivity together. Addifon. (2.) CAPTIVITY, in facred hiftory, a punithment which God inflicted upon the Ifraelites for their vices and infidelities. The first of these captivities is that of Egypt, from which Mofes de vered them; after which are reckoned 6 during the government of the judges; but the greateft were thofe of Judah and Ifrael, which happened under their kings. It is generally believed, that the ten tribes of Ifrael never returned in a body, after their difperfion, though individuals of each certainly did. The captivities of Judah are ge nerally reckoned four; the laft of which fell in A. M. 3416, under Zedekiah; and from this period began the feventy years captivity foretold by Jeremiah. (3.) CAPTIVITY, PRINCES OF THE. Since the deftruction of Jerufalem by the Romans, the Jews boaft that they have always had their particular princes, of the houfe of David, whom they call princes of the captivity, in the E. and W. Thote in the E. governed the Jews that dwelt in Babyion, Affyria, and Perfia; and thofe in the W. governed thofe of Judea, Egypt. Italy, &c. He who relided in Judæa commonly took up his abode at Tiberias. He prefided in aflemblies, decided caufes, levied taxes, and had officers under him. As to the princes of the captivity in the E, they were extinct before the end of the 2d century. Something of this pageantry, however, is faid to be ftill kept up; perhaps that the Jews may be furnished with an anfwer to the Chriftians, when they urge the prophecy of Jacob against them: the fceptre they pretend being ftill preferved a mong them in the head of the captivity. See ECHMALOTARCHA. * CAPTOR. n. f. [from capio, 'to take, Lat.] He that takes a prifoner, or a prize. *CAPTURE. [capture, Fr. captura, Lat.] 1. The act or practice of taking any thing.-The great fagacity, and many artifices ufed by birds, in the inveftigation and capture of their pry. Derham. 2. The thing taken; a prize. (2.) CAPTURE (§ 1. def. 2.) is particularly ap plied to a fhip taken at fea. Captures made at fea were formerly held to be the property of the captors after a poffeffion of 24 hours; but the mo dern authorities require, that before the property can be changed, the goods muft have been brought into port, and have continued a night intra, prah dia, in a place of fafe cuftody, fo that all hope of recovering them was loft. (3.) CAPTURE is likewife ufed for an arrest or feizure of a criminal, debtor, &c. at land. To CAPTURE, v. a. a new verb in very genere! ufe, and daily occurring in all our news-papers, but which we have not yet met with in any Eng. lith Dictionary, not even in that of Dr Afh, which contains the most complete collection of Engin words hitherto published. It fignifies to take, but if its ufe were not in a great measure eftablished by cuftom, (which often gives fanction to greater abfurdities,) it would appear as ridiculous, as one were to fay of an author who had wrote a new book, that he had feriptured it. The late prof. Beattie, in his dialogue of the dead, upa the modern innovations on the English languag (See BLUSH, 3.) introduces Mercury, as g this, among other directions, to Dean Swift, to make English of the nerve and bet pattern "You maft on no account fpeak of taking te enemy's flips, towns, guns, or baggage; it m be capturing. About 20 years ago, when t word was imported, I heard a furly English g remark, that fince his countrymen had learned t talk of capturing ships, they had loft the art of taking them: but Rodney and Hood have fince proved that he was mistaken." (1.) CAPUA, in ancient geography, a very ancient city of Italy, in Campania, and capital f that district. It was a fettlement of the Ofci fore the foundation of Rome; as the amazing fir tility of the land and a lucrative commerce po ed immenfe wealth upon its inhabitants, it came one of the most extenfive and magnifice cities in the world. With riches excelfive luxury crept in, and the Capuans focn loft the power repelling thofe nations whom their infolence h exasperated. Roman aid was called, but the lo diers fent to defend it wished to make it ther prey. Jealous of the avarice and ambition Rome, the Capuans warmly efpoufed the quar rel of Carthage: Ilannibal made Capua bis wir quarters after the battle of Canne; and there hitherto invincible foldiers were enervated by plea fure and indolence. When through a failure fupplies d as many others as chofe to embrace the ftrict of. fervance, and in 1528, they obtained his bull. In 1529, the order was brought into complete form Matthew was elected general, and the chapter made conftitutions. In 1578, there were 17 general chapters in the order. CAPUCIATI, an appellation given to the fol lowers of Wickliff in the 14th century, because they did not uncover themfelves before the hoft. CAPUENA, in ichthyology, a fith caught in the American feas, and efteemed very delicate. It is round fhaped, and ufually about 5 inches long. CAPURA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the hexandria clafs of plants. (1.) CAPUT, the head. See HEAD. upplies from Carthage, Hannibal was under the neceflity of going to Brutium, and leaving the Capuans to defend themfelves, this city, which had been long invefted, was furrendered at difcretion to the confuls Appius Claudius and Q. Fulvius Flaccus. The fenators were put to death, the nobles imprifoned for life, and all the citizens fold and difperfed, except VIBIUS and his friends who killed themfelves. The buildings were ipared by the victor; and Capua was left to be a harbour for the hufbandmen, a warehoufe for goods, and a granary for corn. Colonies were fent to inhabit it, and in procefs of time it regained a gree of its importance. But Genferic the Vandal was more cruel than the Romans, for he maf facred the inhabitants, and burnt the town. Narles rebuilt it; but in 841 it was totally deftroyed Ly the Saracens, and the inhabitants driven to the mountains. Since the foundation of the new Cty, (N° 2.) old Capua has remained in ruins. (2) CAPUA, in modern geography, a neat little City of Naples, in Lavoro, built on part of the fite old Capua, (N° 1.) It owes its origin to the Lombard inhabitants of the old city, who, fome time after the departure of the Saracens, ventured down again into the plain; but not deeming their force equal to the defence of their former extenfive circuit, built a fmaller town on the banks of the Volturno, and on the fite of the ancient CASILINUM. In 856, Landulph formed here an independent earldom, and in the courfe of a few generations Capua acquired the title of a princiFity. In the 11th century, the Normans of ATer expelled the Lombard race of princes, and Richard their chief became prince of Capua. The grandfon of Tancred of Hauteville drove out the defcendants of Richard, and united this ftate to the raft of his poffeffions. Capua is at prefent frified according to the rules of modern art, and may be confidered as the key of the kingdom; trough far removed from the frontier, it is the stly fortification that really covers the approach to Naples. It was, however, taken by the French, der Gen. Championet, on the 11th Jan. 1799. It is 15 miles NE. of Naples, and 100 SE. of Rure. Lon. 15.7. E. Lat. 41. 26. N. CAPUCHE, n. J. Fr. capace,] a friar's cowl. CAPUCHED. adj. [from capuce, Fr. a hood.] Covered over as with a hood.They are differently cuculicted and, capuched upon the head and back, and, in the cicada, the eyes are more prominent. Broon's Vulgar Brrous. (2.) CAPUT BARONIE the head of the barony, or CAPUT HONORIS, the head of the honour, in ancient cuftoms, denoted the chief feat of a nobleman, where he made his ufual refidence, and held his court. It could not be farled in dowry nor could be divided among the Laughters, in cafe there were no fon to inheric bot who to defcend entire to the eldest daughter, slabus aliunde fatisfactis. CAPUCHIN. . . A female garment, confing of a cloak and hood, made in imitation of the drefs of capuchin monks; whence its name is derived. from (3.) CAPUT DRACONIS, in aftronomy, a fixed ftar of the firft magnitude, in the head of the conftellation DRACO, called by the Arabs, ELTANIN, and RASABEN. a (4.) CAPUT GALLINAGINIS, in anatomy, is a kind of feptum, or fpongious border, at the extremities or apertures of each of the vehicula femi nales; ferving to prevent the feed coming from one fide, from ruthing upon, and fo flopping, the difcharge of the other. CAPUCHINS, religions of the order of St Franris in its firicteft obfervance; deriving their name capuce, or capuchon, a ftuff cowl, wherewith they cover their heads. They are clothed with brown or grey; always bare-footed; never go in a coach, nor ever shake their beards. They are arm from the order of Minors, commonly call cordeliers, fet on foot in the 14th century by Matthew Balchi, who pretended to have been adsifed from heaven, to practife the rule of St Franto the letter. Pope Clement VII, in 1525, give him permiffion to retire into folitude, with VOL. V. PART I (6.) CAPUT-LUPINUM, [Lat. e. a wolfifh head,] a term anciently applied to an outlawed felon, whe might be knocked on the head like a quolf, by any one that met him; becaufe, having renounced all law, he was to be dealt with as in a ftate of nature, when every one that should find him might slay him. But now, to avoid fuch inhumanity, it is holden that no man is intitled to kill him wantonly and willfully; but in fo doing he is guilty of murder, uniefs it is done in the endeavour to ap prehend him. (7.) CAPUT MEDUSE, a northern conftellation included in that of PERSEUS. a (8.) CAPUT MORTUUM, (Lat.i..a dead head,] name given o fixed and exhaufted refiduums remaining in retorts after diftillations. As thefe refiduums are very different, according to the fubftances diftilled, and the day of heat employed, they are by the more acce modern chemifts. particularly specified by num a term denoting their qualities; as earthy ráté charry refidum, faline rfiduum, &c. CAPUTII, a parish of Scotland, in Perthshire, comprehending the rete pat of the district of Stormont, and extending near 13 miles from NW, to SE. in length, and form 1 to 64 in breadth befides including feveral diftant portions in other parithes. The foil is partly a light loam and party a cold wet clay. The climate is dry and healthy temperate on the banks of the Tay and lils, but coiti and fharp on the hills. The Tay fometimes overflows feveral hundred acres. Four great Boods happened in 1761, 1780, 1789, and 1791. N. and W. parts are hilly, and contain quarries of The |
