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▪ I. capped, capt, ppl. a.|kæpt|
[f. cap n. and v. + -ed.]
1. a. Provided with or wearing a cap, either as an article of dress, or of defensive armour.
c1370Wyclif Agst. Begg. Friers (1608) 30 Capped Friars, that beene called Maisters of Divinitie. 1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 107 Aske thi cappid maistres. 1587U. Fulwell Like will to L. in Hazl. Dodsley III. 321 Where learn'd you to stand capp'd before a judge? 1667J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. x. (1743) 243 Anciently it was not permitted to any Subject to be so much as capped in presence of the King of England. 1859Jephson Brittany xvi. 269 Crowds of white-capped laundresses.
b. Having a natural cap or head-covering.
1704Worlidge Dict. Rust. et Urb. s.v. Fishing Flies, The Steel-Fly..capt about with the Feathers of a Peacocks-tail. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) i. s.v. Lark, The capped, or chit, lark.
c. fig.
1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. i. 150 The friar..went capped with the name of Brother Brimstone ever after.
2. a. Covered on the top as with a cap; crowned.
1610Shakes. Temp. iv. 152 The Clowd-capt Towres. 1665Boyle Exp. Hist. Cold xix. (R.) Savoy, and the neighbouring countries..have mountains almost perpetually capped with snow. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. lxxxvi, Darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 25 London clay capped by Lower Bagshot sand.
b. fig.
c1605Montgomerie Flyting 624 Great fraud..Cappit with quyet conceit. 1847Emerson Repr. Men iv. Montaigne Wks. (Bohn) I. 338 You are bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions.
c. Having the surface caked or hardened into a crust. dial.
1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. iii. i. 78 (E.D.S.) When heavy rains presently succeed..the surface is apt to become what we call capped. 1807A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) II. 89 He found the surface slightly bound (called here capt).
3. Fitted with a cap, as a ship's mast with protective covering, a loadstone with a piece of steel or magnetic iron, a fire-arm with a percussion cap.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 38 A payr of capped Sheffeld kniuez. 1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 3 Artificially capped and armed with steele, or iron. 1667H. Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 423 The two pieces [of Load-stone]..uncapped as well as capped. 1685Boyle Effects of Mot. iv. 38 The Load-stone vigorous..and well capped. 1803Naval Chron. IX. 329 All the lower and upper masts up, capped, rigged over head. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 23 Sept. 4/2 The muzzle-loading rifle was also loaded and capped.
4. Of a horse's hocks: Having a swollen appearance, as if covered with a cap. Cf. capelet.
1831Youatt Horse xvii. (1847) 366 Capped Hock..is seldom accompanied by lameness. Ibid. (1872) 392 A horse..with a capped hock is regarded with a suspicious eye.
5. dial. Puzzled, beaten. Also, astonished, surprised. Cf. cap v.1 4 b.
1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 262 Capt, surprised; astonished. ‘I wur capt to see him thear’—surprised. ‘Fair capt’—clean astonished; as at the tricks of a juggler. 1866J. Scholes in J. Harland Lancashire Lyrics 133 Aw'm capt' 'at folk wantin' to wed. 1876F. K. Robinson Gloss. Whitby 32/1, I was sair capp'd te tell. 1959J. Austwick Murder in Borough Library xvii. 135 Just saw them disappearing into the wall. I was fair capped for a moment because I didn't know there was a door. 1967‘S. Woods’ And shame Devil ii. 41 ‘Why should she have been lying?’..‘Beats me. I was fair capped when they called her.’
6. capped quartz, a variety of crystallized quartz, embedded in a matrix of compact quartz.
▪ II. capped, cappit
Sc. var. of copped, crabbed. |