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plaintiff fhal! pay 6 s. 8d. to tlie proper officer, and be al¬ 
lowed it again!! tire defendant among Iris other colds. 
Capias in Withernam, a writ lying (where a difirefs taken 
is driven out of the county, fo that the fheriff cannot make 
deliverance in replevin), commanding the fheriff to take 
as many beads of the dillrainer, &c. Reg. Ong. 82, 83. 
C API'GI,/ a porter or door-keeper of the Turkifh fe- 
raglio. There are about five hundred capigis or porters in 
the feraglio, divided into two companies ; one confiding 
of three hundred, under a chief called Capigi Bajfa \ the 
other confifls of two hundred, didinguiflied by the name 
of Cuccicapigi , and their chief Cuccicapigi Bajfa. Their 
bufinefs is to aflili the janizaries in the guard of the fird 
and fecond gates of the feraglio. 
CAPILLA'CEOUS, adj. The fame with capillary. 
CAPIL'LAMENT, J. \_capillamentum, Lat.] A brufiior 
tuft of hair. With botanids it denotes the firings or 
threads about the roots of herbs, or thofe fine threads of 
hairs, called dainina, which grow up in the middle of a 
flower, and are adorned with little knobs at the top. See 
Botany. 
C APILLA'RES,/ The name for the clafs of Ferns, 
in the Syflems of Morifon, Ray, and Boerhaave. 
CAPIL'LARY TUBES,/, in phyfics, are very fmall 
pipes, whofe canals are exceedingly narrow; being focalled 
from their refemblance to a hair in fmallnefs. Their ufual 
diameter may be from / to -J_ of an inch : though Dr. 
Hook adures us that he drew tubes in tire flame of a lamp 
much fmaller, and relembling a fpider’s thread. 
The afeent of water, ice, in capillary tubes, is a noted 
phenomenon in philofophy. Take ieveral fmall glafs. 
tubes, of different diameters, and open at both ends; itn- 
merfe them a little way into water, and the fluid will be 
feen to (land higher in the tubes than the furface of the 
■water without, and higher as the tube is fmaller, almoft 
in the reciprocal ratio of the diameter of the tube ; and 
that both in open air, and in vacuo. The greatefi height 
to which Dr. Hook ever obferved the water to fiand, in 
the fmallefi tubes, was 21 inches above the furface in the 
veil'd. This does not however happen uniformly the 
fame in all fluids ; fome (landing higher than others ; and 
in quicklilver the contrary takes place, as that fluid hands 
lower within the rube than its furface in the veflel, and 
the lower as the tube is fmaller. See Philof. Tranf. No. 
355. or Abr. vol. 4. p. 423, &c. Another phenomenon 
of thefe tubes is, that Inch of them as would only natu¬ 
rally difeharge water by drops, when eleclrified yield a 
continued and accelerated dream; and the acceleration 
is proportional td the fmallnefs of the tube : indeed the 
efl'eiSt of eledrieity is fo conliderable, that it produces a 
continued dream from a very fmall tube, out of which the 
water had not before been able to drop. Priefiley’s Hill. 
Eledtr. 8vo. vol. i, p. 171. This afeent and fulpenfion of 
the water in the tube, is by Dr. Jurin, Mr. Haukfbee, 
and other philofophcrs, aferibed to the attraction of the 
periphery of the concave furface of the tube, to which the 
upper furface of the water is contiguous ai d adheres. 
CAPILLA'TION, j. [fiom capillus, I.at.] A veffel 
like a hair; a fmall ramification of velfels. Notvfed .—Nor 
js the humour contained in fmaller veins, or obfeurer ca- 
:filiations , but in a vehicle. Brown. 
CAPIL'LUS VE'NERIS. See Adiantum. 
CAPILU'Pl, or Cap-.ii.upus (Camillus), a native of 
Mantua, in the 16th century. He wrote a book, entitled, 
'J he Stratagem; in which he relates not only what was 
perpetrated at Paris during tlte maffacre on St. Bartholo¬ 
mew’s day, but alio the artful preparations which pre¬ 
ceded that horrid catafirophe. 
CAPILU'Pl (Lcelius), an Italian Poet, brother to the 
former, made himfelf famous by fome Centos of Virgil. 
'File manner in which lie applied Virgil’s expieffions to re- 
prefent things which the poet never dreamt of, is admired. 
His Cento again!! women is very ingenious, but too fati- 
rical. The poems of Capilupi are inferted in the Deliciae 
Poetaritim Italorum. 
CAP 
CAPIPLE'NIUM,/ [a barbarous word, front caput the 
head, and plcnus } full.] A catarih ; a heavinefs and dull- 
nels of the head, as if it were (luffed. 
CAPISCO'LUS, / in ecclelialiical writers, denotes a 
dignitary in certain cathedrals, who had the fuperinten- 
dency of tlie choir, or band of rnufic, anfwering to what 
in ptlier churches is called chanter or precentor. The ca- 
pifcolus is alio called fcolajlicus, as having the inflrmflioh 
of the young clerks and choriffers. 
CAPISTA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom ofNa- 
ples, and province of Calabria Ultra : twelve miles north- 
eaft of Sqipllace. 
CAPISTRA'TION,/ [from capijlrum, a bridle.] A 
phimofis ; a difeafe of the penis, where the prepuce is re- 
llrained as it were with a bridle, and cannot be drawn over 
the glans. 
CAPI'STRUM, / [y.xvirgoy, from caput, the head, as 
being made to guide and govern the head. ] A bridle or 
head-fiall. A chirurgical bandage made in tlie lhape of a 
bridle, or halter. 
CA'PITAL, adj. [capitalis , Lat. ] Relating to the head : 
Needs mufi the ferpent now his capital bruife 
Expedl with mortal pain. Milton. 
Criminal in the highefi degree, fo as to touch life.—.Se¬ 
veral cafes deferve greater puniflunent than many crimes 
that are capital among us. Swift. —That which affefts life. 
—In capital caufes, wherein but one man’s life is in quef- 
tion, the evidence ought to be clear; much more in a 
judgment upon a war, which is capital to thoufands. 
Bacon. —Chief; principal.—I will, out of that infinite 
number, reckon but lome that are moll capital, and com¬ 
monly Gccurrent both in the life and conditions of private 
men. Spenfer. —Applied to letters: large; Inch as are 
written at the beginnings or heads of books.—Our mod 
conliderable ailions are always prefent, like capital letters 
to an aged and dim eye. Taylor. — Capital Stock. The 
principal or original flock of a trader or company. 
CA'PITAL,/ [from the adjective.] The chief city of 
a nation of kingdom. 
CA'PITAL, / in architeiflure, tlie uppermoft part of 
a column or pilaller, lerving as a head or crowning to it; 
being placed immediately over the (haft, and under the 
entablature. It is made differently in the different orders, 
and is that indeed which chiefly diftinguilhes the orders 
themielves. See Architecture. 
CAPITA L of a B AST ION,/ an imaginary line divid¬ 
ing any vvoik into two equal and fimilar pints ; or a line 
drawn from the angle of the polygon to tlie point of the 
bafiion, or from tlie point of the bullion to the middle of 
the gorge. 
CA'PITALLY, adv. In a capital manner. 
CAPITAN A'T A, a province in Italy, in the kingdom 
of Naples, bounded on the north and eal! by the Adriatic, 
on the fouth by the country of Bari and Balilicata, and on 
the welt by the Molife. The whole country is a vail 
plain, and the foil generally Tandy, with few trees, and 
fcarcely any Iprings or rivers of frelli water, yet the land 
produces a great deal ol corn, and feeds great numbers of 
cattle ; fait is made along the eoaft. The Cargano is the 
only mountain ; on the Tides are plantations of oranges; 
wiihin it are dug Hones ufed almoll for all the buildings in 
the province; and from tlie top the inhabitants collect 
(now, of great ule in a country where the heat is fo ex- 
cellive : the coafls are defended by twenty-two towers. 
The principal towns are Lucera, Foggia, Salpe, Afcoli, 
Bovino, Troja, Manfredonia, Monte St. Angelo, Vielle, 
Termoli, St. Severo, and Vulturara. 
CAPITA'NEUS, /. in ancient law writers, denotes a 
tenant in eapite, or chief. 
C APITA'NEUS ECCLESI/E,the fame with advocate. 
CAPITA'NIA, /. an appellation given to the twelve 
governments efiablilhed by the Portuguele in the Brafils. 
CAPITA'TAi,/ \_caput, [.at. a head.] In botany, the 
fecond divilion of the twenty-firf! order (Compojtti Capi- 
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