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fastigiatum or chili pepper, C.
frutescens or spur pepper, and C. annuum or Guinea
pepper, which includes the bell pepper and other common garden
varieties. The fruit is much used, both in its green and ripe
state, in pickles and in cookery. See Cayenne pepper.

[1913 Webster]

Cap*size" (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Capsized (#); p.
pr. & vb. n. Capsizing.] [Cf. Sp.
cabecear to nod, pitch, capuzar, chapuzar,
to sink (a vessel) by the head; both fr. L. caput head.]
To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.

But what if carrying sail capsize the
boat?

Byron.

Cap"size` (?), n. An upset or
overturn.

Cap"*square (?), n. (Gun.)
A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a
cannon, and holds it in place.

Cap"stan (?), n. [F.
cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante, cabrestante,
fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr.
capere to hold (see Capacious); or perh. the
Spanish is fr. L. caper goat + stans, p.

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