[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

capital \cap"ital\, a. f. capital, l. capitalis capital in
   senses 1  2, fr. caput head. see chief, and cf.
   capital, n.
   1. of or pertaining to the head. obs.
      1913 webster

            needs must the serpent now his capital bruise
            expect with mortal pain.              --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the
      head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as,
      capital trials; capital punishment.
      1913 webster

            many crimes that are capital among us. --swift.
      1913 webster

            to put to death a capital offender.   --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. first in importance; chief; principal.
      1913 webster

            a capital article in religion         --atterbury.
      1913 webster

            whatever is capital and essential in christianity.
                                                  --i. taylor.
      1913 webster

   4. chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the
      general government of a state or nation; as, washington
      and paris are capital cities.
      1913 webster

   5. of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or
      song. colloq.
      1913 webster

   capital letter f, lettre capitale print., a leading or
      heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as
      the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the
      most part, both by different form and larger size, from
      the small lower-case letters, which form the greater
      part of common print or writing.

   small capital letters have the form of capital letters and
      height of the body of the lower-case letters.

   capital stock, money, property, or stock invested in any
      business, or the enterprise of any corporation or
      institution. --abbott.

   syn: chief; leading; controlling; prominent.
        1913 webster
see also:
chief capital capital letter small capital letters capital stock 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

capital \cap"ital\ ka^p"i^tal, n. cf. l. capitellum and
   capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a
   column, dim. of caput head; f. chapiteau, of. capitel. see
   chief, and cf. cattle, chattel, chapiter, chapter.
   1. arch. the head or uppermost member of a column,
      pilaster, etc. it consists generally of three parts,
      abacus, bell or vase, and necking. see these terms, and
      column.
      1913 webster

   2. cf. f. capilate, fem., sc. ville. geog. the seat of
      government; the chief city or town in a country; a
      metropolis. "a busy and splendid capital" --macauly.
      1913 webster

   3. cf. f. capital. money, property, or stock employed in
      trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as
      distinguished from the income or interest. see capital
      stock, under capital, a.
      1913 webster

   4. polit. econ. that portion of the produce of industry,
      which may be directly employed either to support human
      beings or to assist in production. --m'culloch.
      1913 webster

   note: when wealth is used to assist production it is called
         capital. the capital of a civilized community includes
         fixed capital i.e. buildings, machines, and roads
         used in the course of production and exchange and
         circulating capital i.e., food, fuel, money, etc.,
         spent in the course of production and exchange. --t.
         raleigh.
         1913 webster

   5. anything which can be used to increase one's power or
      influence.
      1913 webster

            he tried to make capital out of his rival's
            discomfiture.                         --london
                                                  times.
      1913 webster

   6. fort. an imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or
      other work, into two equal parts.
      1913 webster

   7. a chapter, or section, of a book. obs.
      1913 webster

            holy st. bernard hath said in the 59th capital.
                                                  --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   8. print. see capital letter, under capital, a.
      1913 webster

   active capital. see under active,

   small capital print., a small capital letter; informally
      referred to in the plural as small caps; as, the
      technical terms are listed in small caps. see under
      capital, a.

   to live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without
      producing or accumulating anything to replace it.
      1913 webster
see also:
chief cattle chattel chapiter chapter column 
capital stock capital fixed capital circulating capital capital letter 
active capital active small capital small caps to live on one's capital 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

capital
     adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
     2: punishable by death; "a capital offense"
     3: of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid
        defeat"
     4: uppercase; "capital a"; "great a"; "many medieval
        manuscripts are in majuscule script" syn: great, majuscule
     n 1: assets available for use in the production of further assets
          syn: working capital
     2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or
        business and human resources of economic value
     3: a seat of government
     4: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first
        letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes
        for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals
        and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were
        kept in the upper half of the type case and so became
        known as upper-case letters" syn: capital letter, upper
        case, upper-case letter, majuscule ant: small
        letter
     5: a book written by karl marx 1867 describing his economic
        theories syn: das kapital
     6: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
        syn: chapiter, cap
see also:
great majuscule working capital capital letter upper case upper-case letter 
small letter das kapital chapiter cap 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

268 moby thesaurus words for "capital":
   grade a, abecedarian, ability, acmatic, advantageous,
   all-absorbing, allographic, alphabetic, apical, arch, art center,
   ascender, assets, auspicious, available means, back, balance,
   banner, basic, bastard type, beard, belly, beneficial, benevolent,
   bevel, black letter, body, bon, bonny, bracket capital, braw,
   bueno, cap, capacity, capital city, capital gains distribution,
   capital goods, capital structure, capitalization, cardinal, case,
   cash, central, champion, chief, choice, circulating capital, cock,
   cogent, commendable, consummate, controlling, cornice, corpus,
   counter, county seat, county site, county town, crown, crowning,
   dandy, descender, devices, disposable resources, dominant, elegant,
   em, en, equity capital, essential, estimable, excellent, expedient,
   extraordinary, face, fair, famous, fat-faced type, favorable, feet,
   finances, financial, fine, first, first-class, first-rate,
   first-string, fiscal, fixed capital, flagrant, floating capital,
   focal, font, foremost, fund, fundamental, funds, garment center,
   glaring, good, goodly, grand, graphemic, great, grist, groove,
   gross, head, headmost, healthy, hegemonic, helpful, highest,
   holdings, ideographic, important, initial, italic, kind, laudable,
   leading, letter, lettered, lexigraphic, ligature, liquid assets,
   literal, logogrammatic, logographic, logotype, lower case,
   lower-case, magisterial, main, major, majuscule,
   manufacturing center, master, matchless, maximal, maximum, mean,
   means, medical center, meridian, meridional, method, metropolis,
   minuscular, minuscule, monetary, money, moneyed capital, nice,
   nick, noble, number one, numismatic, nummary, outstanding,
   overmost, overriding, overruling, paramount, pecuniary, peerless,
   pi, pica, pictographic, pleasant, point, power, predominant,
   preeminent, premier, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary,
   prime, principal, print, profitable, property, railroad center,
   rank, ranking, recourses, regal, resorts, resource, resources,
   ripping, roman, royal, ruling, sans serif, savings, script, seat,
   seat of government, select, shank, shipping center, shire town,
   shopping center, shoulder, skillful, small cap, small capital,
   smashing, sound, sovereign, splendid, stamp, star, stellar, stem,
   sterling, stock, summital, sumptuary, super, superb, supereminent,
   superior, supply, supreme, tip-top, top, top-hole, top-notch,
   topflight, topmost, topping, tourist center, trade center,
   transliterated, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase,
   typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, ultimate, uncial, underlying,
   upmost, upper case, upper-case, uppermost, urban center, useful,
   valid, venture capital, vertical, very good, virtuous, vital, ways,
   ways and means, wealth, wherewith, wherewithal, working capital,
   zenithal

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

capital, political economy, commerce. in political economy, it is that 
portion of the produce of a country, which may be made directly available 
either to support the human species or to the facilitating of production. 
     2. in commerce, as applied to individuals, it is those objects, whether 
consisting of money or other property, which a merchant, trader, or other 
person adventures in an undertaking, or which he contributes to the common 
stock of a partnership. 2 bouv. inst. n. 1458. 
     3. it signifies money put out at interest. 
     4. the fund of a trading company or corporation is also called capital, 
but in this sense the word stock is generally added to it; thus we say the 
capital stock of the bank of north america. 

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

capital, n.  the seat of misgovernment.  that which provides the fire,
the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the
anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disgrace before meat.  _capital punishment_, a penalty regarding the
justice and expediency of which many worthy persons -- including all
the assassins -- entertain grave misgivings.

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