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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Regulation \Reg'u*la"tion\ (-l?"sh?n), noun
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
The temper and regulation of our own minds. --Macaulay.
2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
{Regulation sword}, {cap}, {uniform}, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.
Syn: {Law}; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See {Law}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cap \Cap\ (k[a^]p), noun [OE. cappe, AS. c[ae]ppe, cap, cape, hood, fr. LL, cappa, capa; perhaps of Iberian origin, as Isidorus of Seville mentions it first: "Capa, quia quasi totum capiat hominem; it. capitis ornamentum." See 3d {Cape}, and cf. 1st {Cope}.]
1. A covering for the head; esp. (a) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys; (b) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants; (c) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
2. The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. --Shak.
3. A respectful uncovering of the head.
He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks. --Fuller.
4. (Zool.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
5. Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as: (a) (Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate. (b) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament. (c) (Naut.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope. (d) A percussion cap. See under {Percussion}. (e) (Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box. (f) (Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
6. A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
{Cap of a cannon}, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron.
{Cap in hand}, obsequiously; submissively.
{Cap of liberty}. See {Liberty cap}, under {Liberty}.
{Cap of maintenance}, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.
{Cap money}, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.
{Cap paper}. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities.
{Cap rock} (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.
{Flat cap}, cap See {Foolscap}.
{Forage cap}, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier.
{Legal cap}, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge."
{To set one's cap}, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) --Chaucer.
{To set one's cap for}, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cap \Cap\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Capped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Capping}.]
1. To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance. --Derham.
2. To deprive of cap. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
4. To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.]
Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. --Thackeray.
5. To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. --Shak.
Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. --Dryden.
Note: In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of the first letter, or with the first letter of the last word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cap \Cap\, verb (used without an object) To uncover the head respectfully. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: a tight-fitting headdress
3: a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive [syn: {detonator}, {detonating device}, {cap}]
4: something serving as a cover or protection
5: a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom [syn: {cap}, {pileus}]
6: a protective covering that is part of a plant [syn: {hood}, {cap}]
7: an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices" [syn: {ceiling}, {roof}, {cap}]
8: (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: {crown}, {crownwork}, {jacket}, {jacket crown}, {cap}]
9: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: {capital}, {chapiter}, {cap}]
verb
1: lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains" [syn: {cap}, {crest}]
2: restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
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