单词 | capped |
释义 | cappedadj. 1. a. Provided with or wearing a cap, either as an article of dress, or of defensive armour. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a cap cappedc1370 bonneted1648 society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [adjective] > wearing skullcap cappedc1370 basineted1596 c1370 J. Wyclif Against Begging Friers (1608) 30 Capped Friars, that beene called Maisters of Divinitie. 1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 107 Aske thi cappid maistres. 1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. B.iii Where learnd you to stand capt before a iudge. 1667 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. x. 243 Anciently it was not permitted to any Subject to be so much as capped in presence of the King of England. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvi. 269 Crowds of white-capped laundresses. b. Having a natural cap or head-covering. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a head-covering capped1704 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Fishing Flies The Steel-Fly..capt about with the Feathers of a Peacocks-tail. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i. at Lark The capped, or chit, lark. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. vi. i. 195 The friar..went capped with the name of Brother Brimstone ever after. 2. a. Covered on the top as with a cap; crowned. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > at the top or end steel-tippeda1400 cappeda1616 hatted1880 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 152 The Clowd-capt Towres. View more context for this quotation 1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold xix. (R.) Savoy, and the neighbouring countries..have mountains almost perpetually capped with snow. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxxxvi. 48 Darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 25 London clay capped by Lower Bagshot sand. b. figurative. ΚΠ c1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 624 Great fraud..Cappit with quyet conceit. 1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 155 You are bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions. c. Having the surface caked or hardened into a crust. dialect. ΚΠ 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May v. 78 When heavy Rains presently succeed..the Surface is apt to become what we call Capped. 1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex II. vii. 89 He found the surface slightly bound (called here being capt). 3. a. Fitted with a cap, as a ship's mast with protective covering, a lodestone with a piece of steel or magnetic iron, a firearm with a percussion cap. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > at the top or end > fitted with a cap capped?1578 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 47 A payr of capped Sheffeld kniuez. 1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 3 Artificially capped and armed with steele, or iron. 1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 423 The two pieces [of Load-stone]..uncapped as well as capped. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion iv. 38 The Load-stone vigorous..and well capped. 1803 Naval Chron. 9 329 All the lower and upper masts up, capped, rigged over head. 1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 23 Sept. 4/2 The muzzle-loading rifle was also loaded and capped. b. Of a projectile: having a soft steel cap or nose to facilitate penetration. ΚΠ 1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 9/1 The superior penetrating power of capped shot. 1905 Kynock Jrnl. July–Sept. 127 We have shown you that at 300 yds., if you want ‘shock’, what the Axite copped bullet will do. 4. Of a horse's hocks: Having a swollen appearance, as if covered with a cap. Also capped elbow. Cf. capelet n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of legs > other disorders of legs syrmatic1748 grogged1796 down in the hip1826 groggy1828 gammy1830 capped1831 overshot1881 1831 W. Youatt Horse xiv. 273 Capped Hock..is seldom accompanied by lameness. 1831 W. Youatt Horse xiv. 273 A horse with a capped hock is properly regarded with a very suspicious eye. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 330 Capped elbow is the term applied to the swelling which results from a bruise to the skin at the point of the elbow from lying on hard ground, sharp stones, and in shod animals sometimes on the shoe. 5. dialect. Puzzled, beaten. Also, astonished, surprised. Cf. cap v.1 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adjective] forglopnedc1175 dumb1388 astoniedc1400 unprepared1563 thunderstrickena1586 stonished1595 startled?1611 thunderstruck1613 dump1616 admired1684 dumbfounded1815 capped1862 surprised1882 dumbfoundered1883 staggered1911 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 262 Capt, surprised; astonished. ‘I wur capt to see him thear’—surprised. ‘Fair capt’—clean astonished; as at the tricks of a juggler. 1866 J. Scholes in J. Harland Lancashire Lyrics 133 Aw'm capt' 'at folk wantin' to wed. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby I was sair capp'd te tell. 1959 J. 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.’ Thesaurus » Categories » 6. capped quartz n. a variety of crystallized quartz, embedded in a matrix of compact quartz. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.c1370 |
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