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CAP, n.

1. A part of dress made to cover the head.

2. The ensign of a cardinalate.

3. The top, or the uppermost; the highest.

Thou art the cap of fools.

4. A vessel in form of a cap.

5. An act of respect, made by uncovering the head.

Cap of cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.

Cap of maintenance, an ornament of state, carried before the Kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.

In ship-building, a cap is a thick strong block of wood, used to confine two masts together, when one is erected at the head of another.

CAP, VT

1. To cover the top, or end; to spread over; as, a bone is capped at the joint with a cartilaginous substance.

The cloud-capped towers.

2. To deprive of the cap, or take off a cap.

To cap verses, is to name alternately verses beginning with a particular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest.


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CAP, n.

1. A part of dress made to cover the head.

2. The ensign of a cardinalate.

3. The top, or the uppermost; the highest.

Thou art the cap of fools.

4. A vessel in form of a cap.

5. An act of respect, made by uncovering the head.

Cap of cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.

Cap of maintenance, an ornament of state, carried before the Kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.

In ship-building, a cap is a thick strong block of wood, used to confine two masts together, when one is erected at the head of another.

CAP, VT

1. To cover the top, or end; to spread over; as, a bone is capped at the joint with a cartilaginous substance.

The cloud-capped towers.

2. To deprive of the cap, or take off a cap.

To cap verses, is to name alternately verses beginning with a particular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest.

CAP, n. [Sax. cæppe, a cap, and a cape, a cloke; D. kap; G. kappe and haube; Dan. kappe, a robe or coat; Sw. kappa, id.; It. cappa, a cap, a cloke; W. cap; Fr. chape, chapeau; Arm. chap or cap. The sense is probably that which is put on. Class Gb, No. 70; also 31, 36.]

  1. A part of dress made to cover the head.
  2. The ensign of a cardinalate. – Shak.
  3. The top, or the uppermost; the highest. Thou art the cap of fools. – Shak.
  4. A vessel in form of a cap. – Wilkins.
  5. An act of respect made by uncovering the head. – L'Estrange. Cap of cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron. Cap of maintenance, an ornament of state, carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities. In ship-building, a cap is a thick strong block of wood, used to confine two masts together, when one is erected at the head of another.

CAP, v.i.

To uncover the head in reverence or civility. [Not used.] – Shak. Lavoisier, Trans.


CAP, v.t.

  1. To cover the top, or end; to spread over; as, a bone is capped at the joint with a cartilaginous substance. The cloud-capped towers. – Shak.
  2. To deprive of the cap, or take off a cap. To cap verses, is to name alternately verses beginning with a particular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest. – Johnson.

Cap
  1. A covering for the head

    ; esp. (a)
  2. To cover with a cap, or as with a cap] to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.

    The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance.
    Derham.

  3. To uncover the head respectfully.

    Shak.
  4. The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

    Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
    Shak.

  5. To deprive of cap.

    [Obs.] Spenser.
  6. A respectful uncovering of the head.

    He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks.
    Fuller.

  7. To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
  8. The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
  9. To salute by removing the cap.

    [Slang. Eng.]

    Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows.
    Thackeray.

  10. Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use

    ; as: (a) (Arch.)
  11. To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.

    Shak.

    Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter.
    Dryden.

    * In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of the first letter, or with the first letter of the last word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon.

  12. A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.

    Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron. -- Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively. -- Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty. -- Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities. -- Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox. -- Cap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. -- Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]

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Cap

CAP, noun

1. A part of dress made to cover the head.

2. The ensign of a cardinalate.

3. The top, or the uppermost; the highest.

Thou art the cap of fools.

4. A vessel in form of a cap

5. An act of respect, made by uncovering the head.

CAP of cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.

CAP of maintenance, an ornament of state, carried before the Kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.

In ship-building, a cap is a thick strong block of wood, used to confine two masts together, when one is erected at the head of another.

CAP, VT

1. To cover the top, or end; to spread over; as, a bone is capped at the joint with a cartilaginous substance.

The cloud-capped towers.

2. To deprive of the cap or take off a cap

To cap verses, is to name alternately verses beginning with a particular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest.

CAP, verb intransitive To uncover the head in reverence or civility.

CAP-a-pie, From head to foot; all over; as, armed cap-a-pie.

CAP-paper, noun A coarse paper, so called from being used to make caps to hold commodities.

CAP-sheaf, noun The top sheaf of a stack of grain; the crowner.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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play

PLAY, v.i.

1. To use any exercise for pleasure or recreation; to do something not as a task or for profit, but for amusement; as, to play at cricket.

The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Ex.32.

2. To sport; to frolick; to frisk.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day,

Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

3. To toy; to act with levity.

4. To trifle; to act wantonly and thoughtlessly.

Men are apt to play with their healths and their lives as they do with their clothes.

5. To do something fanciful; to give a fanciful turn to; as, to play upon words.

6. To make sport,or practice sarcastic merriment.

I would make use of it rather to play upon those I despise,than trifle with those I love.

7. To mock; to practice illusion.

Art thou alive,

Or is it fancy plays upon our eyesight?

8. To contend in a game; as, to play at cards or dice; to play for diversion; to play for money.

9. To practice a trick or deception.

His mother played false with a smith.

10. To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute, a violin or a harpsichord.

Play, my friend, and charm the charmer.

11. To move, or to move with alternate dilatation and contraction.

The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play.

12. To operate; to act. The engines play against a fire.

13. To move irregularly; to wanton.

Ev'n as the waving sedges play with wind.

The setting sun

Plays on their shining arms and burnish'd helmets.

All fame is foreign, but of true desert,

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.

14. To act a part on the stage; to personate a character.

A lord will hear you play to-night.

15. To represent a standing character.

Courts are theaters where some men play.

16. To act in any particular character; as, to play the fool; to play the woman; to play the man.

17. To move in any manner; to move one way and another; as any part of a machine.

PLAY, v.t. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon or a fire-engine.

1. To use an instrument of music; as, to play the flute or the organ.

2. To act a sportive part or character.

Nature here

Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will

Her virgin fancies.

3. To act or perform by representing a character; as, to play a comedy; to play the part of king Lear.

4. To act; to perform; as, to play our parts well on the stage of life.

5. To perform in contest for amusement or for a prize; as, to play a game at whist.

To play off, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks.

To play on or upon, to deceive; to mock or to trifle with.

1. To give a fanciful turn to.

PLAY, n. Any exercise or series of actions intended for pleasure, amusement or diversion, as at cricket or quoit, or at blind man's buff.

1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.

Two gentle fawns at play.

2. Game; gaming; practice of contending for victory, for amusement or for a prize, as at dice, cards or billiards.

3. Practice in any contest; as sword-play.

He was resolved not to speak distinctly, knowing his best play to be in the dark.

John naturally loved rough play.

4. Action; use; employment; office.

--But justifies the next who comes in play.

5. Practice; action; manner of acting in contest or negotiation; as fair play; foul play.

6. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.

A play ought to be a just image of human nature.

7. Representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, to be at the play. He attends every play.

8. Performance on an instrument of music.

9. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as the play of a wheel or piston.

10. State of agitation or discussion.

Many have been sav'd, and many may,

Who never heard this question brought in play.

11. Room for motion.

The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them.

12. Liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth. Let the genius have free play.

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