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• Cap

  ·vt To deprive of cap. II. Cap ·noun A covering for the head. III. Cap ·vt To salute by removing t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to cap

  1) To take one's oath. I will cap downright; I will swear home. CANT. 2) To take off one's hat or c...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to cap

  To excel; to surpass. Ex. To cap all. Used in familiar language in New England. Mr. Hartshorne, in h...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cap

  A strong thick block of wood having two large holes through it, the one square, the other round, use...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bishop's cap

  ·- A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. ...

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• Flat-cap

  ·noun A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London aft...

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• Phrygian cap

  ·add. ·- A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been con...

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• Service cap

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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• cap acquaintance

  Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting. A woman w...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• custard cap

  The cap worn by the sword-bearer of the city of London, made hollow at the top like a custard. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hum cap

  Very old and strong beer, called also stingo. See stingo. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• trencher cap

  The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bowsprit-cap

  The crance or cap on the outer end of the bowsprit, through which the jib-boom traverses. ...

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• cap, to

  To puzzle or beat in argument. To salute by touching the head-covering, as Shakspeare makes Iago's f...

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• cap-scuttle

  A framing composed of coamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely...

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• cap-shore

  A supporting spar between the cap and the trestle-tree. ...

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• cap-square

  The clamp of iron which shuts over the trunnions of a gun to secure them to the carriage, having a c...

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• monmouth cap

  A flat worsted cap formerly worn by soldiers and sailors. In the old play Eastward Ho, it is said, "...

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• night-cap

  Warm grog taken just before turning in. ...

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• priest's-cap

  An outwork which has three salient angles at the head and two inwards. ...

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• sea-cap

  The white drift or breaks of a wave. White horses of trades. ...

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• to cap the climax

  is to surpass everything. A letter from Mexico, in speaking of the excesses of the American soldiers...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Cardinal Cap Alley, Cornhill

  See Swan and Hoop Passage. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• to set her cap for him

  To direct her attentions to him; to endeavor to win his affections. Dr. Johnson notices the phrase, ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.