Thus blest with all that commerce could supply, America regards with jealous eye

CANNIBAL, n.
CA'NNIBAL, adj.
CANNIBALLY.

a

And canker'd heart, the parent, who so late Had snatch'd her gasping from the jaws of fate. Falconer. The Demagogue. Cotgrave, under the word Chien (dog) has appetit du chien ; most insatiate CANNIBALISM. appetite; a stomach, which though it lay in unto vomiting, still would have more. Perhaps a canine appetite, from Lat. Canis, a dog; though by some suspected to be a corruption of Caribal, from Caribes, the name of the people among whom cannibalism was (Hackluyt) learned to be practised.

This word is not in our older lexicographers, though used by so early a writer as Hackluyt. See the example.

To all this let us join the practice of cannibalism, with which, in the proper terms, and with the greatest truth, their several factions accuse each other. By cannibalism, I mean their devouring, as a nutriment of their ferocity, some part of the bodies of those they have murdered; their drinking the blood of their victims, and forcing the victims themselves to drink the blood of their kindred slaughtered before their faces. By cannibalism, I mean also to signify all their nameless, unmanly, and abominable insults on the bodies of those they slaughtered.-Id. Ib. Let. 1.

Fr. Cannon; It. Cannone, augmentative of Canna, (Menage.) Skinner

CANNON. CANNONE'ER, v. CANNONE'ER, n. CANNONA'DE, v. CA'NNONING, n. from its similitude to a reed, or cane, or tube. (See CANON.) Cotgrave says—

Magna canna,

The gun tearmed a cannon; also the barrel of any gun; (more generally) any instrument, or thing, that is long and hollow, as the barrel of a gun.

No rage of drenching sea, nor woodness of the wynde: Nor cannons with their thundring cracks shall put her from my mind.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Complaint of a Louer, &c. By and by he commanded his men to shoot off twelve cannons charged with bullets into the wood that was hard by those people and ships, at whose noyse they were greatly astonished and amazed, for they thought heaven had fallen vpon them, and put themselues to flight, howling, crying and shreeking, so that it seemed hell was broken loose. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 217.

The 9th of May, the Prince of Parma, wt others, came to view the town of Graue, which a cannoneere saw, and discharged his cannon, wherewith hee tooke away the hinder part of his horse, and missed the prince but a little, so that he brused him sore.-Stow. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1586.

In the meantime, nothing on earth could haue beene more welcome to vs, next vnto gold, then the great store of very excellent bread, which we found in these canoas; for now our men cried, Let vs go on, we care not how farre. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 646. Unto the rougher streame, the cruell swaine Hurries the shepheardesse, where having layne Her in a boate like the cannowes of Inde, Some seely trough of wood, or some trees rinde, Puts from the shoare.-Browne. Brit. Pastorals, b. i. s. 2.

The manner of making a canoa is, after cutting down a large long tree, and squaring the uppermost side, and then turning it upon the flat side, to shape the opposite side for the bottom. Then again they turn her and dig the inside. Dampier. Voyage, vol. i. c. 8.

The canoes, which these people use, are somewhat like those of the Friendly Isles; but the most heavy, clumsy vessels I ever saw; they are what I call double canoes, made out of two large trees, hollowed out.

Cook. Voyage, b. iii. c. 9.

CA'NON, n. CA'NON, adj. CA'NONESS, n. CANONICAL, adj. CANO'NICALLY. CANONICALNESS. CANO'NICALS, n. CANONICA'TION. CA'NONIST, n. CA'NONISTERS. CANONI'STICK, adj. CANONIZATION, n. CA'NONIZER. CANONIZING, N. Canon should have its CA'NONRY, or name from Canna, and CA'NONSHIP, n. from its straightness be applied to recti mensura, a measure, a rule. And thus (met.)

Gr. Kavwv; Fr. Canon ; It. Canone; Sp. Canon. "The Gr. Kaνων,” Martinius says, "seems in the first place to be virgula cannea, a or cane, which is usually very straight; and its etymology, to be Kavn, canna, a cane or reed." (See CANNON, ante.) And Vossius thinks the reason plain why

rod

A rule or law; any thing prescribed, laid down, as the rule or law for regulation, direction, government.

Canon is applied also to the person who uses such canon or rule, who lays it down, who conAlsoforms to it.

1. To the rule and law of Ecclesiastical Polity. 2. To the catalogue of sacred books, by which all the doctrines of the Christian Church are to be regulated.

3. To the catalogue of Saints and Martyrs, whose memory was, by Ecclesiastical canon or law,

And for that cause it is not said amisse touching ecclesiasticall canons, that by instinct of the Holy Ghost they haue been made, and consecrated by the reuerend acceptation of the world.-Hooker. Ecclesiastical Politie, b. iii. s.8. This is mere moral babble, and direct Against the canon laws of our foundation. Milton. Comus, 1. 808.

A goodly person, and could manage faire His stubborne steed with curbed canon-bit, Who vnder him did trample as the aire, And chauft, that any on his backe should sit. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 7. s. 37. And yet we do not so read his workes yt we beleue any thing to be true, because he saith it, but so far as we ca esteme, that yt which he saith, doth agree with the canonicall Scriptures.-Whitgift. Defence, p. 111.

How then is the Church an infallible keeper of the canon of Scripture, which hath suffered some books of canonical Scripture to be lost? and others to lose for a long time their being canonical, at least, the necessity of being so esteemed, and afterwards, as it were by the law of Postliminium hath restored their authority and canonicalness unto them. Chillingworth. Religion of Protestants, pt. i. c. 3. Diodorus Siculus, lib. 4, saith that Hercules being very well pleased with the kindness of the inhabitants of Palatium, foretold them, that after his canonication, those that would consecrate the tenth part of their substance unto Hercules, should be very fortunate and prosperous in the whole course of their life; which continued, saith Diodorus, a custom unto my time.-Spelman. Works, p. 122. For whose sinful sake Schoolmen new tenements in hell must make: Whose strange sins canonists could hardly tell In which commandment's large receit they dwell, Donne, Sat. 2.

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This permission is the very antartic pole against charity, nothing more adverse, ensnaring and ruining those that trust in it, or use it; so leud and criminous as never durst enter into the head of any politician, Jew, or proselyte till they became the apt scholars of this canonistic exposition.

Milton. Tetrachordon.

To him [St. David] our country calendars gave the first of Marche, but in the old martyrologies I find him not remembered: yet I read that Calixtus the Second, first canonized him.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion. Illustrations, s. 4.

By the canonization of saints, and declaring who are martyrs, they assure their power, in that they induce simple men into an obstinacy against the laws and commands of their civil sovereigns even unto death.

Hobbs. Leviathan, pt. iv. c. 47. The canonizing of saints is another relic of Gentilism: it is neither a misunderstanding of Scripture, nor a new invention of the Roman Church, but a custom as antient as the Commonwealth of Rome itself.-Id. Ib. pt. iv. c. 45.

But quaint emblems and devices begg'd from the old pageantry of some Twelfe-nights entertainment at Whitehall, will do but ill to make a saint or martyr: and if the people resolve to take him sainted at the rate of such a canonizing, I shall suspect their calender more than the Gregorian.Milton. Answer to Eikon Basilikė.

But now the gravest and worthiest minister, a true bishop of his fold, shall be reviled and ruffled by an insulting and only canon-wise prelate, as if he were some slight paltry companion.-Milton. Of Reformation in England, b. i.

Add to this the canons of the Apostles, in the 68th of which we read the institution of the same; which canons, though they were not writ by the Apostles themselves, yet they are of great undoubted antiquity, and consequently of no less authority in the several ages of the church. South, vol. ix. Ser. 5

There are in popish countries, women they call secular canonesses, living after the example of secular canons. Ayliffe.

As for the books of the New Testament, we are sufficiently assured, that these and no other are the books which the ancient church received for canonical and of divine authority, and though some of them were for a time controverted, yet upon farther enquiry and examination they were recaved-Tillotson, Ser. 168.

So Whiston's affair sleeps, though he has published a large work in four volumes in octavo, justifying his doctie, and maintaining the canonicalness of the Apostolical constitutions, preferring their authority not only to the epistles, but even to the gospels.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1711.

To the making of a thing or place sacred, this surrender of it by its right owner is so necessary, that all the rites of consecration used upon a place against the owner's will, and without his giving up his property, make not that place sacred, for as much as the property of it is not hereby altered; and therefore, says the canonist, Qui sine voluntale Domini consecrat, reverà desecrat.

South. A Consecration Sermon, vol. i.

But he dying, the chancellor in September, being then at Ely, wrote a letter to Secretary Cecyl, that he would procure that canonry for Immanuel of the King.

Strype. Memoirs, an. 1552.

Nic. Saunders saith that one Morwin, Canon of Saint Pra's Cathedral, London, was thrust out of his canonry in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Wood. Athena Oxon.

He [Wm. Piers] had settled on him the rich rectory of Christian Malford, in Wilts, and a resid. canonship in the said eh. of Wells.-Id. Fasti Oxon.

The Canon Law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have, the proper jurisdiction over.

By the Stat. 2 Hen. 4. c. 3. All persons who accept any, provision from the Pope, to be exempt from canonical obe

dience, to their proper ordinary, are subjected to the penalties

of a premunire.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 8.

CANT. v. CANT, n. CA'NTER, n. CANTICLE. CA/NTINGLY. CA'NTION. CA'NTO, n. It seems to have been applied CANZON. to theCA'NZONET. Chant; i. e. the whining tone or modulation of voice adopted by beggars, with Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. § 3. intent to coax, wheedle, or cajole, by pretensions

Dr. T. H. (in Skinner) derives Cant, a cantando, because vagrants seek their gains from the common people, cantillando, by chanting. Lye is of the same opinion. See CHANT.

of wretchedness; then to

Talk not to me of Popery and Rome,
Nor yet foretel its Babylonish doom;
Nor canonize reforming saints of old,
Because they held the doctrine that you hold;
For if they did, although of saint-like stem;
In this plain point we must reform from them.
Byrom. A Soliloquy.

Yea and euen Luther's image to burned they at Paulis crosse, with many Englishe testamente; Thomas Wolsey the Cardinall present, solemply sitting vnder the goldin canopye. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. And alwaies, when he rides, there is a canopie or small tent carried ouer his head vpon the point of a iaueline. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 65. Then toke she hold of the heery lockes of his heade, and sayde; strengthen me O Lord God in this houre; and with that, she gaue him two strokes vpon the necke, and smote of hys heade. Then toke she the canopye awaye, and rollid the dead body asyde.-Bible, 1551. Judith, c. 13.

This evening late, by then the chewing flocks
Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb
Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold,
1 sat me down to watch upon a bank
With ivy canopied, and interwove
With flaunting honey-suckle.-Milton. Comus.
Where ladies doff their champions' helmes,
And kisse their beauers hid,

The birch, the myrtle, and the bay,

Like friends did all embrace;

And their large branches did display

To canopy the place.-Drayton. The Quest of Cynthia.

And parlie vnder canapies,

How well or ill they did.-Warner. Albion's England,c. 9. Then followed King Richard, in his robes of purple velvet, and over his head a canopy, born by four Barons of the Cinque-ports.-Baker. Richard III. an. 1483.

Her eyes like marigolds, had sheath'd their light,
And, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay,
Till they might open to adorn the day.

Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece. Nor yet by all meanes knew Wide-throated Mars, his sonne was falne; but in Olympus top, Sat canopied with golden clouds. Joue's counsell had shut up Both him and all the other gods.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii.

Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood
So high above the circling canopie

Of night's extended shade.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. At a reasonable distance, on either hand of the cascade, the wall is hollowed into two spreading scallops, each of which receives a couch of green velvet, and forms at the same time a canopy over them.-Tatler, No. 179. Wher'e'er the rude and moss-green beech

O'er-canopies the glade,

Beside some water's rushy brink

With me the muse shall sit and think

(At ease reclin'd in rustic state,) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud,

How indigent the great.-Gray. Ode on the Spring. CA'NOROUS, adj. Lat. Canorus; Fr. Canore, from Can-ere, to sound, to sing.

Sounding, (sc. musically, tunefully,) musical, tuneful.

But birds that are canorous, and whose notes we most commend, are of little throats and short necks, as nightingales, finches, linnets, canary birds and larks.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 14.

CA'NOPY, v. Fr. Canapé; Gr. Kwvwrelov, CA'NOPY, n. from Kwvw, a gnat, (qui coniCA'NOPIED, adj. cos oculos habet. Lennep.) A veil or covering to exclude gnats from the face. Applied to

A covering extended over a throne or chair of canter.-Wood. Athena Oxon. state; over the head; to any shade or covering.

The language of any cajoler, or hypocritical pretender, (See Swift, A Discourse on the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit, s. 2. Also the quotation from Spectator.)

Canticle, a little song, a sonnet; a portion of a poem.

See CHANT,

Cantion, Canzon; It. Canzone. CHANSON.

Ray. Folly, sir? of what quality. Fal. Quality? any quality in fashion; drinking, lying, Will you have any more. cogging, canting, et cætera. Ford. The Sun's Darling, Act i. sc. 1. To say the truth, he [Wm. Erbury] had language at command, and could dissemble for matter of profit, or to avoid danger, and it was very well known he was only a meer

Who, whatsoeuer perill was prepared,
Both equal paines, and equal perill shared:
The end whereof and dangerous euent
Shall for another canticle be spared.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 5.

He [Arion] stood upright on his feet in the poop close to the ship side, and after he had sounded a certain invocation or praiers to the sea-god, he chanted the canticle before said, (the Hymn to Apollo Pythius.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 282. I doubt whether by Cuddy be specified the authours selfe or some other; for in the eight acglogue the same person was brought in, singing a cantion of Colins making as he saith.-Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar, October. Glosse.

Vio. Make me a willow cabine at your gate, And call vpon my soule within the house, Write loyall cantons of contemned loue, And sing them lowd euen in the dead of night. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 5. Both the great master of Italian rhymes, Petrarch, and our Chaucer, and other of the upper house of the Muses haue thought their canzons honoured in the title of a ballad. Drayton. Odes. To the Reader. And that French Muse's [Bartas] eagle eye and wing, Hath soar'd to heaven, and there hath learn'd the art To frame angelic strains, and canzons sing: Too high and deep for every shallow heart.

P. Fletcher. Purple Island, c. 1. Ped. You finde not the apostrophas and so misse the accent. Let me superuise the canzonet [cangenet.] Shakespeare.-Loue's Labour Lost, Act iv. sc. 2.

The busy, subtle, serpents of the law,
Did first my mind from true obedience draw:
While I did limits to the king prescribe,
And took for oracles that canting tribe,

I chang'd true freedom for the name of free,
And grew seditious for variety.

Roscommon. Ghost of the old House of Commons.

Others, I am afraid, may study the Scriptures, merely for the sake of the phrase and language they there meet with; which, when they are well acquainted with, they do so wretchedly misapply in their religious talk, that, in truth, what is admirable sense and reason in the holy books, is little better than jargon and cant when it comes out of their mouths.-Sharp, vol. vi. Ser. 17.

Cant is by some people derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a Presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking, in the pulpit in such a dialect, that 'tis said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them. Since Mas. Cant's time, it has been understood in a larger sense, and signifies all sudden exclamations, whinings, unusual tones, and in fine all praying and preaching like the unlearned of the Presbyterians.-Spectator, No. 147.

CANTER, v. The verb and noun, Canter, CA'NTER, n. though common in speech, CANTERBURY. have not been found, in any author, except in those on horsemanship. Canterbury, applied to a slow gallop, (from which canter appears to have been corrupted,) occurs in an old book called Clitus's Whimsies, and is likewise used so lately as by Dennis, On the Prelim. to the Dunciad; both produced by Mr. Nares.Berenger, (a better horseman probably than etymologist,) is inclined to a doubt on the common reason given for the usage of this word; viz. that it is derived from the pilgrims riding at this pace to Canterbury; and he suggests the Lat. Cantherius, a gelding, (see the word in Gesner;) horses of that kind, from the calmness of their temper, performing this soft and easy pace (now called canter), with the greatest docility; and the appellation of the animal being transferred to the pace. (See Berenger, On Horsemanship, p. 71.)

Cantillum velut Quantillum; id quod supra mensuram additum est, (Spelman.) Fr. Eschanteler, eschantillon. From CANT, n. the Fr. Canton; It. Cantone, angulus; Gr. Kavowv, the corner of the eye. Applied generally to

CANTLE. v.
CA'NTLE, n.
CA'NTLET, n.
CANT, V.

The corner or edge, piece or portion, fragment or division.

Cantel, in Vives, seems to signify, (met.) to edge in; canteled, in Hall, edged, bordered; in Dryden, divided, apportioned. See CANTON. To cant, among mechanics, is to raise on the edge or corner.

CANTON, v. Ger. Kant; Fr. & Sp. CanCANTON, n. ton; It. Cantone. (See CANCANTONIZE. TLE.) An angle or corner. CANTONMENT. The Swiss, says Skinner, so call their provinces or federate republic, (q.d.) Regionis Anguli. Ihre thinks the etymology of Wachter more probable; viz. that Canton, (as applied to a district) is used, pro pago ex centum villis composito; since we know, he adds, that Helvetia or Swisserland was divided into 100 villages. From Tacitus we also learn, (de Mor. Ger. c. 6,) that, in levying soldiers, 100 (centeni) were sent from every village, and (c. 12,) that 100 companions from the commonalty were assigned to each chief. Cotgrave says, "Se Cantonner. To canton, or cantonize it; to sever themselves from the rest of their fellows, and from the body of the State; and To fortifie, quarter, or erect a new State apart." canton is now more commonly,

To quarter soldiers for a time in different parts or divisions; to canton a town or district,-to proportion such parts or divisions; to part, to apportion, to allow.

shines, and, as they conclude, day blesses them; but the rest of that vast expansum they give up to night and darkness, and so avoid coming near it.

Locke. Conduct of the Underst. s. i. The king of France, making great preparations for war, obtained a new levy of Switzers from the cantons, and procured 6000 to be raised in England to be employed in his service.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 194.

There were no cities, no towns, no places of cantonment for soldiers: so that the Roman forces were obliged to come into the field late, and to leave it early in the season.

Barke. An Abridgment of English History, b. i. c. 3. CANVASS. Lat. Cannabis; Fr. Canevas; It. Canevaccio; Sp. Canevaro; Dut. Kanefas; Sw. All from the Gr. Kavvaßis, flax, Kanfasse. (Junius.) A strong, coarse, kind of linen, or flaxen manufacture.

The mullok on an hepe ysweped was,
And on the flore ycast a canevas,
And all this mullok in a sive ythrowe,
And sifted, and ypricked many a throwe.

Chaucer. The Chanones Tale, v. 16,409.
His bounty ample as the wind that blew,
Such barks for portage out of ev'ry bay,
In Holland, Zeeland, and in Flanders brings,
As spread the wide Sleeve with their canvass wings.
Drayton. Battle of Agincourt.

And, clasping to the mast, endur'd a sea
That almost burst the deck and from the ladder-tackle
Wash'd off a canvas-climber.

Shakespeare. Pericles, Act iv. sc. 3. Other say, that those tumblers and common players, which shewed sundry games and pastimes to win the fauour of the people, were wont to cover that passage over with canvas clothes and vails.-North. Plutarch, p. 17.

Should he draw his hand over a picture, where all is smooth and uniform, he would never be able to imagine how the several prominences and depressions of the human body could be shown on a plain piece of canvas, that his in it no unevenness or irregularity.-Spectator, No. 416.

True poetry the painter's power displays, True painting emulates the poet's lays; The rival sisters, fond of equal fame. Alternate change their office and their name; Bid silent poetry the canvas warm, The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. Mason. Art of Painting. The mountain pines assume new forms Spread canvas wings, and fly through storms, And ride o'er rocks, and dance on foaming waves. Young. British Sailor's Exultation. CANVASS, v. The Fr. Cannabasser, CotCANVASS, n. grave explains, "to can ass, CANVASSER, n. or curiously to examine, CANVASSING, N. search, or sift out, the depth of a matter." Skinner says perhaps a met. from shaking or beating hemp. See CANVASS, ante. To discuss, to examine, to explore, to scrutinize, to search or seek after; to solicit.

The merits of our cause, and the demerits of his own, he had diligently canvassed and weighed, and so aggravated the wickedness of his error by his damnable obstinacy. State Trials. Sir J. Oldcastle, an. 1413.

He that should give his voice unto Christ, because there

was no body else to canvass for it, that if Mahomet had plied

him first, would have had as much faith for the Alchoran, as he hath now for the Bible is, I confess, a Christian,-he

may thank his stars for it.

Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 510.

Glost. Stand back thou manifest conspirator,
Thou that contriued'st to murther our dead lord,
Thou that giu'st whores indulgences to sinne,
I'le canuas thee in thy broad cardinall's hat,
If thou proceed in this thy insolence.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 3. There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men.

Bacon. Essays. Of Cunning. A hidden point, were worth the canvassing.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Spanish Curate, Act ii. sc. 1. When knowledge, instead of being bound up in books, and kept in libraries and retirements, is thus obtruded upon the publick; when it is canvassed in every assembly, and exposed upon every table; I cannot forbear reflecting upon that passage in the Proverbs, "Wisdom cryeth without." Spectator, No. 124. The elections were canvassing for a new parliament, and I ordered my pretensions so as they came to fail.

Sir W. Temple. Memoirs, pt. iii.

I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown, even by sight, to any of you. No previous canvas was made for me.-Burke. Speech at Bristol, 3d Nov. 1774.

To enable them to perform the most arduous and most painful duty in the world with spirit, with efficiency, with independency, and with experience, as real publick counsellors, not as canvassers at a perpetual election.

Burke. On shortening the Duration of Parliaments. Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition is not to be worshipped so: who seeks alone for living homage, stands a mean canvasser in her temple's porch, wooing promiscuously from the fickle breath of every wretch that passes, the brittle tribute of his praise.-Sheridan. Pizarro, Act iii. sc.3. CAP, v. CAP, n. CAPE.

A. S. Cappe; Dut. and Ger. Kappe; Fr. Cappe; It. Cappa ; Sp. Capa. A cap, cape, or cope. CA'PPER. (qv.) From the Lat. Caput, in the CAP-A-PIE. opinion of Skinner; Caput from the Gr. Kepan, (Vossius,) which Lennep thinks is from the obsolete Kenew, whence ZKеnew, to cover. Cap is a covering for the head; cape is the head or top of a garment; also a head-land; cap-à-pie, from head to foot.

To cap is to cover; to top, to over-top. AlsoTo touch the cap, to move or remove it, (more properly to uncap;) to lift up, to raise it.

A vernicle hadde he sewed upon his cappe, His wallet lay beforn him in his lappe Bretful of pardon come from Rome al hote. Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 266. When a ma at the receite of his princes letter putteth of his cappe and kisseth it, doth he this reuerence to the paper or to the prince.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 117.

Like an Egyptian

Capped about,

Whan she goeth oute,

Her selfe for to shewe.-Skelton. Elinour Rumming.

And we met not with them againe, vntill the seuenth day, when we fell in with a cape or headland called Sivetinoz which is the entring into the bay of S. Nicholas. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 311.

Orleance. I will-neuer sayd well. Const. I will cap the prourbe with, there is flatterie in friendship.-Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii, sc. 7.

Iago. Despise me

If I do not. Three great ones of the cittie.
(In personall suite to make me his lieutenant,)
Oft capt to him.
Id. Othello, Act i. sc. 1.

He [Agis] began to spurn against these womanish delights and pleasures, in making himself faire to be the better liked, and to be fine and trim in his apparell; and to cast upon him a Spanish cape, taking pleasure in the diet, bathes, and manner of the ancient Laconians life.

North. Plutarch, p. 663. A figure like your father, Arm'd in all points exactly cap-a-pe, Appears before them, and with solemne march Goes slow and stately.-Shakes. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 2. The best caps were formerly made at Monmouth, where the Cappers Chappel doth still remain, being better carved and gilded than any other part of the church.

Fuller. Worthies. Monmouthshire.

It is worth our pains to observe the tenderness of our kings to preserve the trade of cap-making, and what long and strong strugling our state had to keep up the using thereof; so many thousands of people being inaintained thereby in the land. Capping anciently set fifteen distinct callings on work.-Id. Ib.

When I was in Savoy, and the neighbouring countries, which have mountains almost perpetually capped with snow, I heard them often talk of a certain white kind of pheasants to be met with in the upper parts of the mountains, which for the excellency of their taste were accounted very great delicacies. Boyle. Experimental History of Cold, Tit. 19.

The same gold will also by common aqua regis, and (I speak knowingly.) by divers other menstruums be reduced into a seeming liquor, insomuch that the corpuscles of gold will, with those of the menstruum, pass through cap-paper, and with them also coagulate into a crystalline salt. Id. The Sceptical Chymist, pt. i. The mountain flower there shakes its milk white head, Two stones, memorials of departed worth, Uplift their moss-cap'd heads half-sunk in earth. Jenyns. Passage in Ossian Versified. Philander's temper's violent, not fits The wond'rous waggishness of modern wits, His cap's awry, all ragged is his gown, And (wicked rogue!) he wears his stockings down. Smart. The Horatian Canons of Friendship.

In the deanery succeeded Richard Layton, or Leighton, LL.D. on the 26th July the same year, who on the 31st June going before, was admitted to the said prebendship of Ciliskelf, purposely to capacitate him for a deanery.

Wood. Fasti Oxon.

Good, my complection, dost thou think though I am caparison'd like a man, I haue a doublet and hose in my disposition?--Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. What reeketh he his rider's angry stir,

His flattering hollo, or his stand-I-say? What cares he now for curb, or pricking spur, For rich caparisons, or trappings gay.

Id. Venus & Adonis. After the same manner, they have taken up of late another custome, to silver the trappings especially and caparisons of their horses of service, yea and the harnesse of coach-horses and draught-jades.-Holland. Plinie, p. 517.

But first she found how that the damsell faire,
The messenger that sup'd with her last night,
Was gone before, with purpose to repaire
To those three knights that lately felt her might,
When she did cause them caper in the aire.

Harrington. Orlando, b. xxxiii. s. 60.
To. What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
And. Faith I can cut a caper.

To. And I can cut the mutton too't.

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 3. Goats, in Lat. Capri, a carpendo from cropping (therefore forbidden to be kept in some places, because destructive to young woods) are when young most nimble and frisking, (whence our English word to caper) but afterwards put on great gravity.-Fuller. Worthies. Wales General.

Oft doth she make her body upward fine;
With lofty turns and caprioles in the air,
Which with the lusty tunes accordeth fair.
Davies. On Dancing.

Leo. Gentle sir.

Alph. I am not gentle sir, nor gentle will be, Till I have my poor child restor`d,

Epiphanius Ferdinandus himself not only tells us of a man of 94 years of age, and so weak, that he could not go. unless supported by his staff, who did, upon the hearing of music after he was bitten [by the Tarantula] immediately fall a dancing and capering like a kid.

Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 182.

A man may appear learned, without talking sentences; as in his ordinary gesture he discovers he can dance, tho' he does not cut capers.-Spectator, No. 4.

The tumbler's gambols some delight afford: No less the nimble caperer on the cord: But these are still insipid stuff to thee, Coop'd in a ship, and toss'd upon the sea.

Dryden. (J. Junr.) Juvenal, Sat. 14.

The capriole is the most violent of the high airs. To make it perfect the horse should raise his fore-parts and his hinder to an equal height and when he strikes out behind, his croupe should be on a level with his withers. Berenger. On Horsemanship, vol. i. c. 20.

Proud of thy spoils, O Italy and France!
The soft enervate strain, and cap'ring dance :
From Sequan's streams, and winding banks of Po,
He comes, ye Gods! an all accomplish'd beau.

P. Whitehead. Honour. A Satire.
Careless he seems, yet vigilantly sly,
Woos the stray glance of ladies passing by,
While his off heel insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.

Sheridan. Prol. to Pizarro.

CAPILLARY, adj. Lat. Capillus, quasi CA'PILLARY, n. capitis pilus, (Vossius, CAPILLAMENT. after Isidorus.) Hairy, resembling hair; having the fineness, smallness, delicacy of hair;-fine, small, delicate.

The vanes, the lightest part of the feathers, how curiously are they wrought with capillary filaments, neatly interwoven together, whereby they are not only light, but also sufficiently close and strong, to keep the body warm, and guard it against the injuries of weather.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 12.

It should be considered that mere water only distends the vessels and thereby weakens their tone; and that mercury by its great momentum may justly be suspected of hurting the fine capillaries.-Berkley. Siris, s. 56.

Animal motion and sensation are also accounted for by the vibrating motions of this ætherial medium, propagated through the solid capillaments of the nerves-Id. Ib. s. 224.

CAPITAL, n.
CA'PITAL, adj.
CAPITALIST.

CAPITALLY.
CAPITATION.

Lat. Capitalis, from Caput, the head. (See CAPE.) Dut. Kapitael; Fr. Cavedal; the capital or principal sum or stock. Fr. Chapiteau; It. Capitello; the capital, head or top of a pillar. Of or belonging or pertaining to, the head; the chief, the principal, the uppermost ;-in size or situation, in rank, in degree, in importance, in consequence. As a capital city, a capital crime.

For vndoubtedly, both repletion and superfluous slepe be capitall enemies to studye as they be semblably to health of body and soule.-Sir T. Elyot. Gouernovr, b. i. c. 11.

Thus we have finished the head of our column, which being taken in general for all these members together, is commonly distinguished by the name of capital.

Evelyn. On Architecture. Whether David were punished only for pride of heart in numbering the people, as most do hold, or whether as Josephus and many maintair he suffered also for not performing the commandment of God concerning capitation; that when the people were numbered, for every head they should pay unto God a shekel, we shall not here contend. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 11. Who, that hears these words, would not wish to have been present at this astonishing scene; which represents the apostle of the Gentiles giving an account of his faith to Felix the Roman governor, in so moving and convincing a manner, with such a force and eloquence and strength of

Your caper-cutting boy has run away with?

Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrimage, Act ii sc. 1. argument, that even he, before whom he stands capitally

Wherefore let them that bee cappitall enemies vnto his grace, both in heart and in deece, susspect that of his grace

and moue him vnto it, for doubtless I will neuer doe it.
Barnes. Workes, p. 294.
Meanwhile the winged heralds by command
Of sovran power, with awful ceremony
And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim
A solemn council forthwith to be held
At Pandæmonium, the high capital
Of Satan and his peers.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.
Needs must the serpent now his capital bruise
Expect with mortal pain.
Id. Ib. b. xii.

accused, is struck, awed, confounded by his discourse, and the judge himself quakes at the voice of the prisoner. South, vol. iv. Ser. 5.

I take the expenditure of the capitalist, not the value of the capital, as my standard, because it is the standard upon which amongst us, property as an object of taxation, is rated. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 3.

Capitation taxes, if it is attempted to proportion them to

the fortune or revenue of each contributor, become altogether arbitrary. If they are proportioned not to the supposed fortune, but to the rank of each contributor, become altogether unequal.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 2. Lat. Caput, the head. (See CAP.) Fr. Capituler; It. Capitolare; Sp. Capitular.

CAPITULATE, v.
CAPITULAR, N.
CAPITULARLY.

CAPITULARY. CAPITULATION. To settle or arrange CA/PITILE, n. the heads, (sc.) of an agreement; to propose, to enter into articles of agreement; to agree, to accede, to concede, to terms or conditions, (of submission, surrender.)

Steevens interprets capitulate in Henry IV.-to make head; the common usage seems to express the speaker's intention.

Capitular, (person or thing,) of or belonging to the head, (sc.) of an ecclesiastical body. See CHAPTER.

The Lat. Capitulum; Gr. Kepaλalov, Wiclif renders capitile; Tyndall, pyth; Geneva and Modern Version, sum.

And eke ther was a polkat in his hawe
That as he sayd, his capons had yslawe.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,791. He sawe hem, but he felt hem nought: So that vpon his owne thought He cheese the capon, and forsoke That other, whiche his felawe toke.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. haue ye

Edward Plantagenet erle of Warwike, of whome heard before, beynge kept in the Towre almost fro his tender age, out of all cōpany of me and sight of beastes, i so much

that he coulde not decerne a goose from a capon.
Hall. Hen. VII. an. 15.
Yet must he haunt his greedy landlords hall
With often presents at each festivall:
With crammed capons every new yeares morne.
Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1.
And no one empty-handed to salute
Thy lord and lady, though they have no sute
Some bring a capon, some a rurall cake.

B. Jonson. To Penshurst.

I tried once an experiment, which might indeed have possibly made some alteration in the tone of a bird, from what it might have been when the animal was at its full growth, by procuring an operator who caponised a young black-bird of about six weeks old.

Barrington. On the Singing of Birds. CAPOUCH, n. Į Fr. Capuchon, (from caCAPUCHED. adj. S put)—

A monk's cowle or hood; also the hood of a cloak.

He [the youth, Dorothea] wore a little brown capouch, girt very near to his body with a white towel.

Shelton. Don Quixote, b. iv. c. 1. Between the cicada and that we call a grasshopper, the differences are very many: for first, they are differently cucullated or capouched upon the head and back, and in the cicada the eyes are more prominent.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 3. Capoch'd your rabbins of the synod, And snapp'd their canons with a why-not. Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 2.

CAPRICE, n. Fr. Caprice; It. Capriccio; CAPRI CHIO. Sp. Capricho; from the CAPRICIOUS, adj. Lat. Caper, a goat; (q.d.) CAPRICIOUSLY. the wantonness, the whimCAPRICIOUSNESS. sicalness of a goat. Skinner had seen the word only in the English Dictionary. It is in Sherwood, though capriciousness is not. He explains caprichio, (so he writes it,) a fantastical humour. See CAPER.

Fr. Caprice is thus explained by Cotgrave; "A humour, giddy thought, fantastical conceit, a sudden will, desire, or purpose to do a thing for which one hath no (apparent) reason."

These, long time ripening, oft as Titan's ray
Bright-burning blazes on the summer's day,
At length, emerging from the soil, repair,
And sport capricious, in the fields of air.
Fawkes. Will with a Wisp.
Should fortune capriciously cease to be coy,
And in torrents of plenty descend,
I doubtless, like others, should clasp her with joy,
And my wants and my wishes extend.

Whitehead. To the Rev. Mr. Wright, 1751.

Ausonius, who first mentions it, (the tench,) treats it with such disrespect, as evinces the great capriciousness of taste: for that fish, which at present is held in such good repute, was in his days the repast only of the Canaille. Pennant. British Zoology, Class 4. CAPRICORN, n. Lat. Capricornus; capri cornu, the Goat's horn.

So the sun in his elevation when hee enters the tropick of cancer is in heate more recollected and vigorous; but when he falls off from the meridian, as in Capricorne, hee is more faint, yet more dispersed in his influence.

Bacon. On Learning, (by Wals,) b. iii. e. 4. CAPRIFICATION. Lat. Caprificus, (perCAPRIFICAL. Shaps caper and ficus,) the wild fig, which, Pliny says, never bringeth any fruit to maturity, but breedeth certain flies or gnats, which, having nothing to feed upon in the wild fig, fly unto the other kind, upon which they greedily nibble, and thereby let in the breath of the warm sun, and the air besides, which helps to ripen the fruit. Hence the device of bringing swarms of these gnats from the wild to the other sort of fig tree. See the quotations from Pliny.

In

CAPSULE. Lat. Capsula, diminuCAPSULAR, adj. tive of Capsa, a capiendo, CAPSULARY, adj. (Vossius,) i. e. from holdCAPSULATE, adj. ing or containing. CAPSULATED, adj. Suidas, Καψα; κίστη και Onn, i. e. cista et arca, which Schneidius thinks may have its name, a cavitate, from the hollowness in which any thing may be held.

A little case (in plants which contain the seed.) Capsulate pods are the little short seed-vessels of plants. Capsulated,-inclosed in any thing, as a walnut is in its green husk. (Miller, Gardener's Dictionary.)

The little cases or capsules which contain the seed in this species [the fern] of plants are less than half the size of a very small grane of dust; nay in certain kinds they do not exceed the third or fourth part of such a grain, and resemble little bladders bound about with spiral twisting rings or fillets.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. x. Note I.

In man, and most other animals, the heart hath the guard of bones; but in the lamprey, which hath no bones, (no not so much as a back bone) the heart is very strangely secured, and lies immured, or capsulated in a cartilage, or gristly substance, which includes the heart, and its auricle, as the skull doth the brain in other animals.-Id. 1b. c. 7. Note (6).

When it [the wind pipe] ariseth from the lungs, it ascendeth out directly into the throat, but descending first into a capsulary reception of the breast bone.

Brown. Vulgar Erroars, b. iii. c. 27.

This is also a way to separate seeds, whereof such as are corrupted and steril, swim; and this agreeth not onely unto the seed of plants lockt up and capsulated in their husks but also, &c.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 6.