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Dr.H.More. CaÏbal¶ler (?), n. One who cabals. A close caballer and togueÐvaliant lord. Dryden. Cab¶alÏlineÿ(?), a. [L.caballinus, fr. caballus a nag. Cf. Cavalier.] Of or pertaining to a horse. Ðn. Caballine aloes. Caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; Ð called also horse aloes. Ð Caballine spring, the fountsain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; Ð fabled to have been formed by a stoke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus. Cab¶aÏret (?), n. [F.] A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. [Obs. as an English word.] ØCaÏbas¶ (?), n. [F.] A flat basket or for figs, etc.; Hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; Ð often written caba. C.Bront‚. ØCaÏbas¶sonÿ(?), n. (Zo”l.) A speciec of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctusand X. hispidus); the tatouay. [Written also Kabassou.] Cab¶bage (?), n. [OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa cape. See Chiff, Cape.] (Bot.) 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caulifliwer, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sonaetimes classed as cabbages. 2. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage free, below. 3. The cabbage palmetto. See below. Cabbage aphis (Zo”l.), a green plantÐlouse (Aphis brassic?) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage. Ð Cabbage Beetle (Zo”l.), a small, striped fleaÐbeetle (Phyllotreta viltat) which lives, in the larval state, on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage and other cruciferous plants. Ð Cabbage butterfly (Zo”l.), a white butterbly (Pieris rap? of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below. Ð Cabbage Fly (Zo”l.), a small twoÐwinged fly (Anthomyia brassic?), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop. Ð Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; Ð contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. Ð Cabbage palmetto, a spesies of palm tree (Cabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. Ð Cabbage rose (Bot.), a spesies of rose (Rosa centifolia) haveng large and heavy blossoms. Ð Cabbage tree, Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbag, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies. Ð Cabbage worm (Zo”l.), the larva of several species of moths and butterfies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is usully the larva of a white butterfly. See Cabbage Butterfly, above. The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks oryoung plants during the night, are the larv‘ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. Ð Sea cabbage.( Bot.) (a) Sea kale (b). The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, , broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation. Ð ThousandÐheadeu cabbage. See Brussels sprouts. Cab¶age, v.i. To from a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. Johnson. Cab¶bage, v.i. [imp. & p.p Cabbaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabbagingÿ3.] [F.cabasser, fr. OF. cabas theft; cf. F. cabas basket, and OF. cabuser to cheat.] To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor ... cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot. Cab¶bage, n. Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments. Cab¶bler (?), n. One who works at cabbling. Cab¶bling (?), n. (Metal) The process of breaking up the flat measses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron. ØCaÏbe¶?aÿ?, CaÏbesse¶ÿ(?), n. [Pg. cabe?a, F. cabesse.] The finest king of silk received from India. ØCa¶ber (?), n. [Gael] A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. Cab·eÏzon¶ÿ(?), n. [Sp., properly, big head. Cf. Cavesson.] (Zo”l.) A California fist (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. Cab¶lÏat (?), n. [Native South American name.] (Zo”l.) The capybara. See Capybara. Cab¶in (?), n. [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.] 1. A cottage or small house; a hum. Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. E.Everett. 2. A small room; an inclosed plase. So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive. Spenser. 3. A room in ship for officers or passengers. Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship. Cab¶in v. i. [Imp. &p. p. Cabined (Ð?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabining.] To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. I'll make you ... cabin in a cave. Shak. Cab¶in, v. t. To confine in, or as in, a cabin. I am cabined, cribbed, confined, dound in To saucy doubts and fears. Shak. Cab¶iÏnetÿ3, n. [F., dim. of cabine or cabane. See Cabin, n.] 1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser. 2. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. 3. A private room in which consultations are held. Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott. 4. The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. µ In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consista of those privy coucilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. Mozley & W. Ð In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departaments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the PostmasterÐgeneral ,and the AttorneyÐgeneral. 5. (a) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: (b) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an ‚tagŠre or closed with doors. See Etagere. 6. Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the colleotion itself. Cabinet council. (a) Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which bode it was formerly the full title). (b) A meting of the cabinet. Ð Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council. Ð Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carie de visite. Ð Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection. Cab¶iÏnet, a. Suitable for a cabinet; small. Yt [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev. Cab¶iÏnet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabineted; p. pr. & vb. n. Cabineting.] To inclose [R.] Hewyt. Cab¶iÏnetÏmak·erÿ(?), n. One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. Cab¶iÏnetÏmak·ing, n. The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture. Cab¶iÏnetÏmork· (?), n. The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. Cab·iÏre¶anÿ3, n. One of the Cabiri. ØCabÏbi¶riÿ(?), n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ????????.] (Myth) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; Ð also called sons of eph‘stus (or Vulcan), as begin masters of the art ofworking metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott. CaÏbir¶iÏanÿ(?), a. Same as Cabidic. CaÏbir¶icÿ3, a. [Cf. F. Cabirique] Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship. [Written also Cabiritic.] Ca¶bleÿ3, n. [F. Cƒble,m LL. capulum, caplum, a rope, fr. L. capere to take; cf. D., Dan., & G. rabel, from the French. See Capable.] 1. A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vesel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. 2. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting, or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphiccable. 3. (Arch) A nolding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; Ð called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. Ð Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor. Ð Cable¶s length, the length of a ship's cable. Cables in the merchant service vary in length from 100 to 140 fathoms or; but as a maritime measure, a cable's length is either 120 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile). Ð Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coll of a cable. Ð Street cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. Ð Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a plase sheltered from wind and heavy seas. Ð Submarina cable .See Telegraph. Ð To pay out the cable. To vear out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole. Ð To serve the cable, to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et. Ð To slip the cable, to let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die.

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