Caput

1. n. The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
2. n. The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
3. n. The top or superior part of a thing.

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.