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Caput mortuum
Caput Ca"put (k[=a]"p[u^]t), n.; pl. Capita (k[a^]p"[i^]*t[.a]). [L., the head.] 1. (Anat.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum. 2. The top or superior part of a thing. 3. (Eng.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. --Lamb. Caput mortuum. [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

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- Caput mortuum (Latin for 'dead head', and variously spelled caput mortum or caput mortem), also known as cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple...
- Caput mortuum (plural capita mortua; literally "dead head") is a Latin term used in alchemy to signify a useless substance left over from a chemical operation...
- Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum,: 254  was a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber...
- for the masculine and neuter forms. For example, for mortuus, mortua, mortuum 'dead', mortua is declined like a regular first-declension noun (such as...
- names for the mineral when used in painting include colcotar and caput mortuum. In Spanish, it is called almagre or almagra, from the Arabic al-maghrah...
- This article presents the complete oeuvre of Dutch multi-instrumentalist and composer Maurice de Jong, including his work as a band member and collaborating...
- when ground co****ly, makes a purple pigment. One such pigment is caput mortuum, whose name is also used in reference to mummy brown. The latter is another...
- known as the 'Dead Sea' (Gr**** Νεκρά Θάλασσα, Nekrá Thál****a, Latin (Mare Mortuum).[citation needed] The Dead Sea is a salt lake is bordered by Jordan to...
- Tiberias appellatur, et Jordanem, qui mari influit Salinarum, quod nunc Mortuum dicitur Hieronymus (1910). "Epistola CXXIX Ad Dardanum de Terra promissionis...
- duplicata in pre-modern medicine, it was prepared from the residue (caput mortuum) left over from the production of aqua fortis (nitric acid, HNO3) from...