noun.
A wooden bowl: as, a cap of porridge and milk. Also caup.
To put a cap on; cover with or as with a cap, in any sense of that word; cover the head, top, end, or some particular part of: as, to cap a dunce at school; to cap (the nipple of) a gun.
To complete; consummate; crown; bring to a climax; follow up with something more remarkable than what has previously been done: as, to cap a story with its moral; he capped this exploit by another still more audacious.
To puzzle.
To deprive of the cap.
To salute by taking off the cap: as, to cap a proctor.
To uncover the head in reverence or civility.
To arrest.
To seize; lay hold of violently; specifically, to seize (a vessel) as a prize; hence, to entrap or insnare.
To chap, as the hands.
To wrinkle.
To coagulate.
An abbreviation of capital;
of Latin caput or capitulum, chapter;
in printing, of capitalize.
noun.
A covering for the head; a hood; now, especially, a head-covering or head-dress made of soft material and usually fitting more closely to the head than a hat.