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a. [ Pref. anti- + epileptic. ] (Med.) Good against epilepsy. -- n. A medicine for epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antepileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course.
Syn. -- automatic pilot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + pupil (of the eye). ] (Zool.) Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillaceus hairy, fr. capillus hair. ] Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capillaire maiden-hair; sirop de capillaire capillaire; fr. L. herba capillaris the maidenhair. ] 1. A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillamentum, fr. capillus hair: cf. F. capillament. ] 1. (Bot.) A filament. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being capillary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capillarité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or condition of being capillary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Capillarity depends upon the relative attraction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid, and is especially observable in capillary tubes, where it determines the ascent or descent of the liquid above or below the level of the liquid which the tube is dipped; -- hence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. Capillaire. ] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capillary attraction,
Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. --
Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.
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n.; pl. Capillaries 1. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatio the hair. ] A capillary blood vessel. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatura. ] A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillus hair + -form. ] In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillosus. ] Having much hair; hairy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. catyrpel, corrupted fr. OF. chatepelouse, or cate pelue, fr. chate, F. chatte, she-cat, fem. of chat, L. catus + L. pilosus hairy, or F. pelu hairy, fr. L. pilus hair. See Cat, and Pile hair. ] 1. (Zool.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caterpillar catcher, or
Caterpillar eater (Zool.), a bird belonging to the family of Shrikes, which feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds. --
Caterpillar hunter (Zool.), any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and other allied genera of the family Carabidæ which feed habitually upon caterpillars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an endless belt looped over several wheels, used in pairs in place of wheels to propel vehicles, such as tractors or military tanks, over rough ground. [ PJC ]

adj. having caterpillar treads or tracks on the wheels; as, a caterpillar-tracked earthmover.
Syn. -- caterpillar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. compilatio: cf. F. compilation. ] 1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Goldsmith's ] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Compiler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compiled p. pr. & vb. n. Compiling. ] [ F. compiler, fr.L. compilare to plunder, pillage; com- + pilare to plunder. See Pill, v. t., Pillage. ] 1. To put together; to construct; to build. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Before that Merlin died, he did intend
A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contain or comprise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which these six books compile. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To write; to compose. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Computers) to process (computer program source code) with a compiler{ 2 } to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language. [ PJC ]

n. Compilation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. compiluor; cf. OF. compileor, fr. L. compilator. ] 1. One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Computers) a computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Deobstruent; aperient. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Depilating. ] [ L. depilatus, p. p. of depilare to depilate; de- + pilare to put forth hairs, pilus hair. ] To strip of hair; to husk. Venner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dépilation. ] Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dépilatoire. ] Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n. An application used to take off hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. de- + pilous: cf. L. depilis. ] Hairless. Sir t. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dis- + oppilatus, p. p. of oppilare to shut up. ] To open. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physics) Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. éolipyle. ] Same as æolipile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. epilepsia, Gr. &unr_; a seizure, the “falling sickness, ” fr. &unr_; to take besides, seize, attack; 'epi` upon, besides + &unr_; to take: cf. F. épilepsie. Cf. Catalepsy. ] (Med.) The “falling sickness, ” so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. epilepticus, Gr. &unr_; : cf. F. épileptique. ] Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One affected with epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'epi`lhptos epileptic + -genous. ] (Med.) Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'epi`lhptos + -oid. ] (Med.) Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. epilogatio. ] A summing up in a brief account. [ Obs. ] Udall.

{ } a. [ Gr. 'epilogiko`s. ] Of or pertaining to an epilogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to reckon over, to deliver an epilogue; 'epi` upon + &unr_; to count, reckon. See Epilogue. ] Enumeration; computation. [ R. ] J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_; calculating. See Epilogism. ] Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ See Epilogism. ] To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue. [ 1913 Webster ]