Capot comes from caput mortuum, a legal expression used of one who is outside the pale of the law; the word is still employed in Germany for what is broken and of no further use.
In many of them, however, these volatile parts are found wanting; and, the stratum is found in the state of the most perfect coal or caput mortuum.
The one species abounds in oily matter, the other has been distilled by heat, until it has become a caput mortuum, or perfect coal.
It would not be fair to complain of the style of an Encyclopedia as dull, as wanting volatile salt; nor of the style of an Essay because it is too light and sparkling, because it is not a caput mortuum.
The basis of this style of writing is a caput mortuum of impotent spite and dulness, till it is varnished over with the slime of servility, and thrown into a state of unnatural activity by the venom of the most rancorous bigotry.
The Caput mortuum of this distillation of Vitriol is the ferruginous earth of this Salt, and is called Colcothar.
When nothing more rises with the strongest degree of heat, there remains of the plant a mere coal only, called the Caput Mortuum, or Terra Damnata.
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