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  • English Word Capillary Definition Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
  • English Word Capillary Definition Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
  • English Word Capillary Definition A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
  • English Word Capillary Definition A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
  • English Word Capillation Definition A capillary blood vessel.
  • English Word Capillature Definition A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.
  • English Word Capilliform Definition In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
  • English Word Capillose Definition Having much hair; hairy.
  • English Word Capistrate Definition Hooded; cowled.
  • English Word Capita Definition of Caput
  • English Word Capital Definition Of or pertaining to the head.
  • English Word Capital Definition Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
  • English Word Capital Definition First in importance; chief; principal.
  • English Word Capital Definition Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
  • English Word Capital Definition Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
  • English Word Capital Definition The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
  • English Word Capital Definition The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
  • English Word Capital Definition Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
  • English Word Capital Definition That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
  • English Word Capital Definition Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
  • English Word Capital Definition An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
  • English Word Capital Definition A chapter, or section, of a book.
  • English Word Capital Definition See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
  • English Word Capitalist Definition One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
  • English Word Capitalization Definition The act or process of capitalizing.
  • English Word Capitalize Definition To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
  • English Word Capitalize Definition To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)
  • English Word Capitalize Definition To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
  • English Word Capitalized Definition of Capitalize
  • English Word Capitalizing Definition of Capitalize