Capital

1. a. See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
2. n. Of or pertaining to the head.
3. n. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
4. n. First in importance; chief; principal.
5. n. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
6. n. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
7. n. The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
8. n. The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
9. n. Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
10. a. That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
11. 1a. 1 See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
12. 1n. 1 Of or pertaining to the head.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.