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Caput baroni'

Caput baroni', the castle or chief seat of a baron....

Caput lupinum, a wolf's head. An outlawed felon was said to be caput lupinum, and might be knocked on the head, like a wolf....

Pertaining to a baron or a barony...

Barony of land, a quantity of land amounting to 15 acres. In Ireland, a sub-division of a county....

Barony, or Baronage, the honour and territory of a baron; also the body of barons and peers....

Caput anni, the first day of the year....

Caput jejunii, the beginning of the Lent Fast, i.e., Ash Wednesday....

Caput mortuum, dead; obsolete....

Lupinum caput gerere, to be outlawed, and have one's head exposed like a wolf's, with a reward to him who should take it....

Noxa sequitur caput. Jus. Civ, (Guilt follows the person.)...

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