in Law, a writ of two sorts; one before judgment in an action, and the other after. That before judgment is called capias ad respondendum, where an original is issued out, to take the defendant, and make him answer the plaintiff. That after judgment is of divers kinds; as,

Capias ad Satisfaciendum, a writ of execution that issues on a judgment obtained, and lies where any person recovers in a personal action, as for debt, damages, &c. in which cases this writ issues to the sheriff, commanding him to take the body of him against whom the debt is recovered, who is to be kept in prison till he makes satisfaction.

**Capias pro Fine** is a writ lying where a person is fined to the king, for some offence committed against a statute, and he does not discharge the fine according to the judgment; therefore his body shall be taken by this writ, and committed to gaol till the fine is paid.

**Capias Ullegatum**, a writ which lies against any one outlawed, upon any action personal or criminal, by which the sheriff is ordered to apprehend the party outlawed, for not appearing on the exigent, and keep him in safe custody till the day of return, when he is ordered to present him to the court, to be there farther ordered for his contempt.

**Capias in Withernam**, a writ that lies for cattle in withernam: that is, where a distress taken is driven out of the county, so that the sheriff cannot make deliverance upon a replevin; then this writ issues, commanding the sheriff to take as many beasts of the distrainer, &c.

**Capigi**, a porter or doorkeeper of the Turkish feraglio. There are about five hundred capigis or porters in the feraglio, divided into two companies; one consisting of three hundred, under a chief called Capigi-Baffa, who has a stipend of three ducats per day; the other consists of two hundred, distinguished by the name of Cucciocapigi, and their chief Cucciocapigi-Baffa, who has two ducats. The capigis have from seven to fifteen alpers per day; some more, others less. Their business is to assist the janizaries in the guard of the first and second gates of the feraglio; sometimes all together; as when the Turk holds a general council, receives an ambassador, or goes to the mosque; and sometimes only in part; being ranged on either side to prevent people entering with arms, any tumults being made, &c. The word, in its original, signifies, gate.

**Capillament**, in a general sense, signifies a hair: whence the word is applied to several things, which on account of their length or their fineness resemble hairs: as,

**Capillaments of the Nerves**, in Anatomy, the fine fibres or filaments whereof the nerves are composed.

**Capillary**, in a general sense, an appellation given to things on account of their extreme fineness or resembling hair.

**Capillary Tuber**, in Physics, are small pipes of glass, whose canals are extremely narrow, their diameter being only a half, a third, or a fourth of a line.

The ascent of water, &c., in capillary tubes, is a phenomenon that has long embarrassed the philosophers; for let one end of a glass tube open at both extremities be immersed in water, the liquor within the tube will rise to a considerable height above the external surface: or if two or more tubes are immersed in the same fluid, one a capillary tube, and the other of a larger bore, the fluid will ascend higher in the former than in the latter; and this will be in a reciprocal ratio of the diameters of the tubes.

In order to account for this phenomenon, it will be necessary first to premise, that the attraction between the particles of glass and water is greater than the attraction between the particles of water themselves: for if a glass tube be placed in a position parallel to the horizon, and a drop of water be applied to the under side of the tube, it will adhere to it: nor will it fall from the glass till its bulk and gravity are so far increased, as to overcome the attraction of the glass. Hence it is easy to conceive how sensibly such a power must act on the surface of a fluid, not viscid, as water, contained within the small cavity or bore of a glass tube; as also that it will be proportionably stronger as the diameter of the bore is smaller; for it will be evident that the efficacy of the power is in the inverse proportion of the diameter, when it is considered, that such particles only as are in contact with the fluid, and those immediately above the surface, can effect it.

Now these particles form a periphery contiguous to the surface, the upper part of which attracts and raises the surface, while the lower part, which is in contact with it, supports it: so that neither the thickness nor length of the tube is of any consequence here; the periphery of particles only, which is always proportionable to the diameter of the bore, is the only acting power. The quantity of the fluid raised will therefore be as the surface of the bore which it fills, that is, as the diameter; for otherwise the effect would not be proportional to the cauld, since the quantities are always as the ratio of the diameters; the heights therefore to which the fluids will rise, in different tubes, will be inversely as the diameters.

Some doubt whether the law holds throughout, of the ascent of the fluid being always higher as the tube is smaller; Dr Hook's experiments, with tubes almost as fine as cobwebs, seem to show the contrary. The water in these, he observes, did not rise so high as one would have expected. The highest he ever found it, was at 21 inches above the level of the water in the basin; which is much short of what it ought to have been by the law above mentioned. See Cohesion.

**Capillary Vessels.** Many small vessels of animal bodies have been discovered by the modern invention of injecting the vessels of animals with a coloured fluid, which upon cooling grows hard. But though most anatomists know the manner of filling the large trunks, few are acquainted with the art of filling the capillaries. Dr Monro, in the Medical Essays, has given what after many trials he has found most successful. See Injection.

**Capillus veneris.** See Adiantum, Botany Index.

**Capilupi**, or **Capilupus**, Camillus, a native of Mantua in the 16th century. He wrote a book, entitled, *The Stratagem*; in which he relates not only what was perpetrated at Paris during the massacre on St Bartholomew's day, but also the artful preparations which preceded that horrid massacre. It is, however, blended with a great number of falsities.

**Capilupi**, Lucius, an Italian poet, brother to the former, made himself famous by some Centos of Virgil. The manner in which he applied Virgil's expressions to represent things which the poet never dreamt of, is admired. His Cento against women is very ingenious, but too satirical. The poems of Capilupi are inserted in the *Delicia Poetarum Italorum*.

**Capiscolus,**