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  • English Word Capitulate Definition To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
  • English Word Capitulate Definition To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.
  • English Word Capitulated Definition of Capitulate
  • English Word Capitulating Definition of Capitulate
  • English Word Capitulation Definition A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
  • English Word Capitulation Definition The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
  • English Word Capitulation Definition The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
  • English Word Capitulator Definition One who capitulates.
  • English Word Capitule Definition A summary.
  • English Word Capitulum Definition A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.
  • English Word Capitulum Definition A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
  • English Word Capivi Definition A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.
  • English Word Caple Definition A horse; a nag.
  • English Word Caple Definition See Capel.
  • English Word Caplin Definition See Capelin.
  • English Word Caplin Definition Alt. of Capling
  • English Word Capling Definition The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel.
  • English Word Capnomancy Definition Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.
  • English Word Capnomor Definition A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar.
  • English Word Capoc Definition A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.
  • English Word Capoch Definition A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.
  • English Word Capoch Definition To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind.
  • English Word Capoched Definition of Capoch
  • English Word Capoches Definition of Capoch
  • English Word Capon Definition A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.
  • English Word Capon Definition To castrate; to make a capon of.
  • English Word Caponet Definition A young capon.
  • English Word Caponiere Definition A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
  • English Word Caponize Definition To castrate, as a fowl.
  • English Word Capot Definition A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.