ppl. a. [f. CAP sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Provided with or wearing a cap, either as an article of dress, or of defensive armor.
c. 1370. Wyclif, Agst. Begg. Friars (1608), 30. Capped Friars, that beene called Maisters of Diuinitie.
1401. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 107. Aske thi cappid maistres.
1587. Fulwell, Like will to L., in Hazl., Dodsley, III. 321. Where learn’d you to stand capp’d before a judge?
1667. E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. III. x. (1743), 243. Anciently it was not permitted to any Subject to be so much as capped in presence of the King of England.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, xvi. 269. Crowds of white-capped laundresses.
b. Having a natural cap or head-covering.
1704. Worlidge, Dict. Rust. et Urb., s.v. Fishing Flies, The Steel-Fly … capt about with the Feathers of a Peacocks-tail.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. s.v. Lark, The capped, or chit, lark.
c. fig.
1856. R. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. i. 150. The friar … went capped with the name of Brother Brimstone ever after.
2. Covered on the top as with a cap; crowned.
1610. Shaks., Temp., IV. 152. The Clowd-capt Towres.
1665. Boyle, Exp. Hist. Cold, xix. 547 (R.). Savoy, and the neighbouring Countries … have mountains almost perpetually cap’d with snow.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. lxxxvi. Darken’d Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 25. London clay capped by Lower Bagshot sand.
b. fig.
1605. Montgomerie, Flyting, 624. Great fraud … Cappit with quyet conceit.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, iv. Montaigne, Wks. (Bohn), I. 338. You are bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions.
c. Having the surface caked or hardened into a crust. dial.
1750. W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandm., III. i. 78 (E. D. S.). When heavy rains presently succeed … the surface is apt to become what we call capped.
1807. A. Young, Agric. Essex (1813), II. 89. He found the surface slightly bound (called here capt).
3. Fitted with a cap, as a ship’s mast with protective covering, a loadstone with a piece of steel or magnetic iron, a fire-arm with a percussion cap.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1871), 38. A payr of capped Sheffeld kniuez.
1613. M. Ridley, Magn. Bodies, 3. Artificially capped and armed with steele, or iron.
1667. H. Oldenburg, in Phil. Trans., II. 423. The two pieces [of Load-stone] … uncapped as well as capped.
1685. Boyle, Effects of Mot., iv. 38. The Load-stone vigorous … and well capped.
1803. Naval Chron., IX. 329. All the lower and upper masts up, capped, rigged over head.
1887. Times (weekly ed.), 23 Sept., 4/2. The muzzle-loading rifle was also loaded and capped.
4. Of a horse’s hocks: Having a swollen appearance, as if covered with a cap. Cf. CAPELET.
1831. Youatt, Horse, xvii. (1847), 366. Capped Hock … is seldom accompanied by lameness. Ibid. (1872), 392. A horse … with a capped hock is regarded with a suspicious eye.
5. dial. Puzzled, beaten.
6. Capped Quartz, a variety of crystallized quartz, embedded in a matrix of compact quartz.
