Usually means: Growth or arrangement of hair.
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  1. capillation: Wordnik
  2. capillation: Wiktionary
  3. Capillation: Dictionary.com
  4. Capillation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. capillation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Capillation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. capillation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. capillation: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Capillation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (capillation)

noun:  (obsolete) A capillary (blood vessel).
noun:  (by extension, obsolete) A branching structure or ramification.
noun:  (obsolete, medicine) A hairline fracture of the skull.
noun:  (Paleontology) A pattern of hair-like structures or fine, thread-like projections on the surface of an organism
noun:  Hair or pelt.
noun:  The movement of liquid by capillary action.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) A sympathetic tendency to move towards something
noun:  The problem of extra liquid adhering to the surface of a needle or pipette through capillary action, causing errors in delivering an accurate amount.

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