'Sai' definitions:

Definition of 'Sai'

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Capuchin \Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See Capoch.] [1913 Webster]
1. (Eccl.) 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. [1913 Webster]
A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. [1913 Webster]
3. (Zool.) (a) 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. (b) Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the brown capucine or horned capucine.), {Cabus albifrons} (the cararara), and Cabus apella. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. [1913 Webster]
Capuchin nun, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. [1913 Webster]