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A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.
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n.
A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.
v. t.
To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
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To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.
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To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.
v. t.
To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
v. t.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
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A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.
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A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.
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Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
v. t.
Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
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An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
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The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
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The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
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That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
imp. & p. p.
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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
v. i.
To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
n.
The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
v. t.
To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.
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