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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Caput \[d8]Ca"put\ (k[amac]"p[ucr]t), n.; pl. {Capita} (k[acr]p"[icr]*t[adot]). [L., the head.] 1. (Anat.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum. 2. The top or superior part of a thing. 3. (Eng.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. --Lamb. {Caput mortuum}. [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue. | |
