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CAPTAIN, n.

1. Literally, a head or chief officer; appropriately, the military officer who commands a company, whether of infantry, cavalry, artillery or matrosses.

2. The commander of a ship of war, or of a merchantman. But the latter is often called a master.

3. The commander of a military band, a sense that occurs in the sciptures; as a captain of fifty.

4. A man skilled in war or military affairs; as, Lord Wellington is a great captain.

5. A chief commander. Shak. But in this sense rarely used, but in composition.

Captain-general, is the commander in chief of an army, or of the militia. The covernor of a state is Captain-General of the militia.

Captain-Lieutenant, is an officer, who with the rank of captain and pay of lieutenant, commands a company or troop. Thus the colonel of a regiment being the captain of the first company, that company is commanded by a Captain-Lieutenant.

Captain-Bashaw, or Capudan Bashaw, in Turkey, is the High Admiral.

CAPTAIN, a. Chief; valiant.

1913 Definition
Captain (captain)
n.(k1913 webster dictionaryp"t***ibreve]n)
Cap"tain
[OE. capitain, captain, OF. capitain, F. capitaine (cf. Sp. capitan, It. capitano
  1. A head, or chief officer
    ; as: (a)
  2. A military leader; a warrior.

    Foremost captain of his time.
    Tennyson.

    Captain general. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.

  3. To act as captain of; to lead.
    [R.]

    Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms.
    Lowell.

  4. Chief; superior.
    [R.]

    captain jewes in the carcanet.
    Shak.


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