Word: capillation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (“hair”). Pronunciation: /ˌkæpɪˈleɪʃən/ 1. A capillary (blood vessel). Labels: obsolete Example: Nor is the humour contained in smaller veins or obscurer capillations, but in a vesicle or little bladder Example: they are rather noxious to the secretive organs of the urine which, during the latter part of the time, operate still more disadvantageously on the whole organism, because they cut up, violently, the tender capillation, so needful to the economy of the blood, partly by the quick process of putrefaction, in which they throw the body, before dying away; 2. A branching structure or ramification. Labels: broadly, obsolete Example: This Water is between three and four yards deep in all places, with a fine bottom of soft Marle and Sand; from every part of which in a calm day you may perceive the capillations of almost innumerable fountains, which are the principal feeders of the Tarn. Example: The globular torso—the bubble-like suggestion of a head—the three fishy eyes—the foot-long proboscis—the bulging gills—the mostrous capillation of asp-like suckers— the six sinuous limbs with their black paws and crab-like claws —God ! 3. A hairline fracture of the skull. Labels: obsolete Example: CAPILLATION, or CAPILLARY fracture, according to some writers, is a fracture in the skull, so small that it can scarce be perceived; but yet it often proves mortal. Example: Then there are papers on canthus, on canule (a canula), on caout-choue (valgairement gomme e/lastique), on capeline (a sort of bandage), on capillaire (in its botanical, physical, and anatomical meanings), on capillament (the hair of the head and of other parts of the body), on capillation (a slight fracture of the cranium), on capistration (with is cross reference to phimosis), on capistre (a sort of trismus), […] 4. A pattern of hair-like structures or fine, thread-like projections on the surface of an organism Example: The fact that the majority of the Burma Terebratulids have been burnt has caused the suggestion to be made that the capillation shows on this account more plainly than it would otherwise do. For in certain cases of decortication of the test a sort of capillation may be observed which does not show under ordinary conditions. Example: Pedicle-valve ornament of concentrid lamellae and growth lines, faint capillation; spines in row at low angle to hinge, directed laterally, bases subparallel. Brachial-valve ornament similar but no spines; concentric ornament more prominent; traces of fine capillation. 5. Hair or pelt. Example: The monarch, whose inglorious look (Having a natural-born peruke) Gave rise to this great capillation, Ill treateth sure his gallant nation, And takes too many pains by far In seeking such renown in war, Example: These markings are old, are to be regarded as the remains of the color marking and of the capillation of our animal forefathers. 6. The movement of liquid by capillary action. Example: the crown of he ridge is isolated, raised out of reach of the re-active moisture from below, that supports the level of herbage of a meadow in long droughts, and confirms the benefit of the draining-tile under a level surface by increased 'capillation' set up in the soil. Example: These manure nuggets, so to speak, are absorbers and detainers of moisture that comes up from below by capillation due to surface culture, and is easily absorbed through the dust blanket from the summer showers . 7. A sympathetic tendency to move towards something Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: The voice flattens in pitch by the returning resonance wave, have a pitch a trifle lower, which, assisted by the lack of perfect confidence in nearly every singer, draws the voice over by sympathy in capillation. 8. The problem of extra liquid adhering to the surface of a needle or pipette through capillary action, causing errors in delivering an accurate amount. Example: The main sources of error which oocur during sample application are creep back and capillation. Example: We have found that the use of micropipettes helps avoid the capillation effect since only one delivery is made at a time and the effect due to capillation can be taken into account by proper calibration.