Cape
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cape \Cape\ (k[=a]p), n. [F. cap, fr. It. capo head, cape, fr.
L. caput heat, end, point. See {Chief}.]
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast
into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
[1913 Webster]
{Cape buffalo} (Zool.) a large and powerful buffalo of South
Africa ({Bubalus Caffer}). It is said to be the most
dangerous wild beast of Africa. See {Buffalo}, 2.
{Cape jasmine}, {Cape jessamine}. See {Jasmine}.
{Cape pigeon} (Zool.), a petrel ({Daptium Capense}) common
off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a
pigeon.
{Cape wine}, wine made in South Africa [Eng.]
{The Cape}, the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of
the southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn,
and, in New England, of Cape Cod.
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from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CAPE, English law. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands and tenements.
The writs which bear this name are of two kinds, namely, cape magnum, or
grand, cape, and cape parvum, or petit cape. The petit cape, is so called,
not so much on account of the smallness of the writ, as of the letter.
Fleta, lib. 6, c. 55, Sec. 40. For the difference between the form and the
use of these writs, see 2 Wms. Saund. Rep. 45, c, d; and Fleta, ubi sup.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "cape":
Inverness cape, academic gown, afghan, beak, bill, blouse,
breakwater, burnoose, capote, cardinal, cashmere, cassock,
chersonese, chlamys, cloak, coral reef, delta, domino, duster,
foreland, frock, head, headland, hook, kimono, kirtle, manta,
manteau, mantelet, mantelletta, mantellone, mantilla, mantle,
mantua, mull, naze, neck, ness, opera cloak, pallium, pelisse,
peninsula, peplum, plaid, point, poncho, promontory, reef, robe,
sagum, sandspit, shawl, shoulderette, slop, smock, soutane, spit,
spur, stole, tabard, tippet, toga, toga virilis, tongue, tunic,
wrap-around, wrap-up, wrapper
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