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Capper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

Capper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One whose business is to make or sell caps.

2. A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

3. An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.

Capperonier Encyclopedia Britannica

CAPPERONIER, Claude (1671-1744), a classical scholar, was the son of a tanner at Montdidier. He studied at Amiens and Paris, and took orders in the Church of Rome, but devoted himself almost entirely to classical studies. He declined a professorship in the university of Basel, and was afterwards appointed to the Greek chair in the Collège de France. He published an edition of Quintilian, and left behind him at his death an edition of the ancient Latin Rhetoricians, which was published in 1756. His nephew, Jean Capperonier, was also a famous linguist.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5, p. 77
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