Definition of capital

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Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..

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Neckmould :: Neckmould (n.) A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital..
Collectivism :: Collectivism (n.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
Blood Money :: Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade..
Flyer :: Flyer (n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture..
Fund :: Fund (n.) A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc..
Province :: Province (n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital..
Encarpus :: Encarpus (n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc..
Capital :: Capital (a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a..
City :: City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see..
Lower-case :: Lower-case (a.) Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3..
Composite :: Composite (v. t.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital..
Felony :: Felony (n.) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt..
Annulet :: Annulet (n.) A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital..
Coussinet :: Coussinet (n.) That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute..
Capital :: Capital (n.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
Bolster :: Bolster (n.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
Abacus :: Abacus (n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column..
Cyriologic :: Cyriologic (a.) Relating to capital letters.
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