a. Obs. Also 7 capillare. [ad. L. capillār-is of or pertaining to hair, f. capillus hair: cf. F. capillaire, 14th c. in Littré.] Of or pertaining to hairs, hair-like.
1. = CAPILLARY 5.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 127. No root at all these Capillar hearbes haue. Ibid., 232. Polytricha & Callitrica (both capillare herbs).
2. = CAPILLARY 3.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 22. The cutis … hath many capillar veines in it.
1666. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl., x. 96. The chyle … sticks in the Capillar veins.
3. = CAPILLARY 2.
1638. A. Read, Chirurg., xxii. 162. If the chink [in fractured skull] be only capillar, and hard to be seene … the Chirurgeon may be excused.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 7. All the Capillar Roots must be taken away.
