‖n. [ Malay kāpoq. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Capoches [ Cf. Sp. capucho, It. cappucio, F. Capuce, capuchon, LL. caputium, fr. capa cloak. See Cap. ] A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capoched ] To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. capon, chapoun, AS. capūn (cf. F. chapon), L. capo, fr. Gr. ka`pwn akin to ko`ptein to cut, OSlav. skopiti to castrate. Cf. Comma. ] A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To castrate; to make a capon of. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A young capon. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caponnière, fr. Sp. caponera, orig., a cage for fattening capons, hence, a place of refuge; cf. It. capponiera. See Capon. ] (Fort.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To castrate, as a fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. See Corporal, n. ] One who directs work; an overseer. [ Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. ] A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capotted. ] To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It. capotasto. ] (Music) A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Sp. capote (cf. F. capote.), fr. LL. capa cape, cloak. See Cap. ] A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. t. Same as Capoch. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It., from [ the ] head or beginning. ] (Mus.) From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décapode. ] (Zool.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively, as a decapod crustacean. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. de`ka ten + poy`s, podo`s, foot. ] 1. (Zool.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five (rarely six) pairs of legs. They are divided into two principal groups: Brachyura and Macrura. Some writers recognize a third (Anomura) intermediate between the others. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

{ } a. (Zool.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a staff, or L. scapus a stem, stalk + -lite: cf. F. scapolite. ] (Mon.) A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The scapolite group includes scapolite proper, or wernerite, also meionite, dipyre, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Tetra-, and Decapoda. ] (Zool.) Same as Arthrostraca. [ 1913 Webster ]