Caput

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
  • n. The top or superior part of a thing.
  • n. The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anatomy, the head; the head or upper extremity of some part of the body.
  • n. An abbreviation of the phrase caput senatus (literally, head of the senate), a council or ruling body in the University of Cambridge, England.
  • n. In Roman law, the standing before the law, or the personal status, of a citizen.
  • n. A fanciful term used by the old chemists to denote the residuum of chemicals when all their volatile matters had escaped; specifically, oxid of iron, which is the residue left when sulphate of iron is distilled at a red heat. Hence— Anything from which all that rendered it valuable has been taken away.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
  • n. a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    jut    swelling    excrescence    prominence    bump    protuberance    gibbousness    bulge    protrusion    hump   
    Variant
    capita   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Foot    afoot    foot    pussyfoot    put    soot    underfoot   
    Same Context
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    sacratum    suum    perturbationum    metiri    arbitrabatur    dominus    tristi    constitutionem    abest    umbilicus