Defn: A horse; a nag. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.
CAPEL
Ca"pel, n. (Mining)
Defn: A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
CAPELAN
Cap"e*lan, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Capelin.
CAPELIN
Cape"lin, n. Etym: [Cf. F. capelan, caplan.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family
Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland,
Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written
also capelan and caplin.]
Note: This fish, which is like a smelt, is called by the Spaniards anchova, and by the Portuguese capelina. Fisheries of U. S. (1884).
CAPELINE
Ca"pe*line`, n. [F., fr. LL. capella. See Chapel.] (Med.)
Defn: A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.