CANUTE'S BIRD, the knot, a corruption of "Knut," the _Cinclus bellonii_, of which king Canute was extremely fond. The knot, that called was Canutus' bird of old, Of that great king of Danes, his name that still doth hold, His appetite to please ... from Denmark hither brought. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxv. (1622). CAN´YNGE (_Sir William_) is represented in the _Rowley Romance_ as a rich, God-fearing merchant, devoting much money to the Church, and much to literature. He was, in fact, a Maece´nas of princely hospitality, living in the Red House. The priest Rowley was his "Horace."--Chatterton (1752-1770). CAP (_Charles_), uncle of Mabel Dunham in Cooper's _Pathfinder_ (1849). He is a sea-captain who insists in sailing a vessel upon the great northern lakes as he would upon the Atlantic, but, despite his pragmatic self-conceit, is nonplussed by the Thousand Islands. "And you expect me, a stranger on your lake, to find this place without chart, course, distance, latitude, longitude, or soundings? Allow me to ask if you think a mariner runs by his nose, like one of Pathfinder's hounds?" Having by a series of blunders consequent upon this course, brought schooners and crew to the edge of destruction, he shows heart by regretting that his niece is on board, and philosophy with professional pride by the conclusion:-- "We must take the bad with the good in every v'y'ge, and the only serious objection that an old sea-captain can with propriety make to such an event, is that it should happen on this bit of d--d fresh water." CAPABILITY BROWN, Launcelot Brown, the English landscape gardener (1715-1783). CAP'ANEUS (3 _syl_.) a man of gigantic stature, enormous strength, and headlong valor. He was impious to the gods, but faithful to his friends. Capaneus was one of the seven heroes who marched against Thebes (1 _syl_.), and was struck dead by a thunderbolt for declaring that not Jupiter himself should prevent his scaling the city walls. CAPITAN, a boastful, swaggering coward, in several French farces and comedies prior to the time of Molière. CAPONSAC'CHI (_Guiseppe_), the young priest under whose protection Pompilia fled from her husband to Rome. The husband and _his_ friends said the elopement was criminal; but Pompilia, Caponsacchi, and _their_ friends maintained that the young canon simply acted the part of a chivalrous protector of a young woman who was married at fifteen, and who fled from a brutal husband who ill-treated her.--R. Browning, _The Ring and the Book_. CAPSTERN (_Captain_), captain of an East Indiaman, at Madras.--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon's Daughter_ (time, George II.). CAPTAIN, Manuel Comne´nus of Treb´izond (1120, 1143-1180). _Captain of Kent_. So Jack Cade called himself (died 1450). _The Great Captain (el Gran Capitano)_, Gonzalvo di Cor´dova (1453-1515). _The People's Captain (el Capitano del Popolo_), Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-).