capot, n.m., (nav.) hood (of ladders).
capot, adj., capot (at cards); silly. Faire —; to capot, to win all the tricks, to beat hollow. Être —; to have lost all the tricks; (fig.) to look foolish; to be balked. Faire —; (nav.) to capsize, to upset.
capote, n.f., large cloak with a hood; (soldier’s) great-coat; capuchin, hood, mantle.
capraire, n.f., (bot.) goat-weed, capraria.
câpre, n.f., (bot.) caper.
capriçant or caprisant, adj., (med.) bounding, unequal (of the pulse).
caprice, n.m., caprice, whim, humor, freak; fit, flight, sally; (mus.) caprice. Les —s de la mode; the caprices, freaks of fashion. Les —s de la fortune; the fickleness of fortune. Composer de —; to compose when the spirit moves, when the fit is on.
capricieusement (-mān), adv., capriciously, fantastically, whimsically.
capricieu-x, -se, adj., capricious, whimsical, fickle, freakish, skittish.
capricorne, n.m., (astron.) Capricorn; (ent.) capricorn-beetle.