a franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by matteo di baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of st. francis.-a garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.-a long-tailed south american monkey (cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.-other species of cabus, as c. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), c. albifrons (the cararara), and c. apella.-a variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.