n. A covering for the head; a hood; now, especially, a head-covering or head-dress made of soft material and usually fitting more closely to the head than a hat.n. Anything resembling a cap in appearance, position, or use.n. [⟨ foolscap, orig. used with ref. to the old water-mark of the fool's tap and bells.] A name given, with distinctive qualifications, to several sizes of writing-paper.n. The head, chief, or top; the acme.n. Head, chief, or master.n. An act of respect performed by uncovering the head.n. A cap-sheaf (which see).n. plural Fungi.n. A cape. See cape.n. The cap drawn over the head of a criminal immediately before he is hanged.n. the cap within the rim or circle of the crown, and covering the head. Such caps are represented of different colors, which are mentioned in the blazon.To put a cap on; cover with or as with a cap, in any sense of that word; cover the head, top, end, or some particular part of: as, to cap a dunce at school; to cap (the nipple of) a gun.To complete; consummate; crown; bring to a climax; follow up with something more remarkable than what has previously been done: as, to cap a story with its moral; he capped this exploit by another still more audacious.To puzzle.To deprive of the cap.To salute by taking off the cap: as, to cap a proctor.To uncover the head in reverence or civility.n. A wooden bowl: as, a cap of porridge and milk. Also caup.To arrest.To seize; lay hold of violently; specifically, to seize (a vessel) as a prize; hence, to entrap or insnare.To chap, as the hands.To wrinkle.To coagulate.An abbreviation of capital;of Latin caput or capitulum, chapter;in printing, of capitalize.n. The calyptra of a moss.n. A cover of leather or other material for the lens of a camera to exclude light and dust. If a shutter is not used, the exposure is usually made by removing and replacing the cap.n. In carriage-trimming, a funnel-shaped leather pocket used to cover the lower ends of carriage-bows and the ends of the bow-irons.n. In architecture: Same as capital: in common use among masons.n. A coping or other finish of the top of a post or pier or wall, especially anything projecting slightly beyond the vertical faces.n. Hence — The horizontal molding finishing at the top a window-trim, door-trim or architrave.n. The uppermost member of a hand-rail, as in a balustrade or the like; that part of a hand-rail which is molded to allow the hand to grasp it.n. One of the white spots which appear at the poles of Mars and increase and decrease with the changes of the planet's seasons.n. In steam-skidding, a cone of sheet-iron or steel, with a hole in the end through which a chain passes, which is fitted over the end of a log before snaking it, to prevent it from catching on stumps, roots, or other obstacles.n. In mining, a horizontal timber resting on a prop or on one or more legs, used to support the roof.n. Same as marotte.n. to pause and consider carefully before deciding or acting.