▪ I. capel1 Min.
(ˈkeɪp(ə)l)
Also caple.
A composite stone of quartz, schorl, and hornblende, occurring in the walls of tin and copper lodes (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881).
| 1801 Hitchins in Phil. Trans. XCI. 162 The copper lode is filled with layers of ore and stony matter, the latter of which is here [in Cornwall] called Caple. |
▪ II. † capel2, cappell Alch. Obs.
[ad. L. capella, app. so used in med.L. by alchemists; see Du Cange.]
? A kind of large crucible.
| 1527 Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters A ij a, Ye must have cappellys of whyte claye..comonly halfe a yerde wyde and depe. Ibid. A ij b, As brode and longe as the cappell or fornays is. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. II. Plate 12 Cappels. [1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Capella, Spanish, cupelling furnace.] |
▪ III. capel3
variant of caple, Obs., a horse.