Index of English words, starting with "ca"

(1) - Capturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capture

(1) - Capuchin (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
(2) - Capuchin (n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.
(3) - Capuchin (n.) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.
(4) - Capuchin (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
(5) - Capuchin (n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.

(1) - Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
(2) - Caput (n.) The top or superior part of a thing.
(3) - Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.