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nimif.es the mighty ones, and seems to have SyngencsiaPolyg. aqualis. There is no 

 , applied to the supposed beings that British species. The cabbage or carna- 

 er the striking operations of tion-tree, sow-thistle. &c. are, however, 

 iu.vare. cultivated in our gardens, and several 



OABI'RIA, the mysteries of the Cabiri : 

 those celebrated at Samothrace were the 

 chief. 



CA'BLE, Fr. and Sp. cable, Tent, kabel. 

 1. A large rope or chain used to retain a 

 vessel at anchor. Rope cables are prin- 



cipally manufactured of hemp : each cable 

 has three strands, every strand has three 

 ropes, and every rope consists of three 

 twists. The twists have more or fewer 

 threads according to the greater or less 

 thickness of the cable. All vessels have 

 ready for service three cables: the sheet 

 cable, the best bower cable, and the tmall 

 lower cable. Iron cables are strong iron 

 chains constructed in various ways : they 

 have in a great measure, and deservedly, 

 replaced the hempen cables. 2. In ar- 

 chitecture, wreathed circular mouldings 

 resembling a rope ; also the staff which 

 is left in the lower part of the flutings of 

 some examples of the Corinthian and 

 Composite orders. 



CA'BLED, tied with a cable. A heraldic 

 term applied to a cross formed of the ends 

 of a cable in representation. 



CA'BLED COLUMNS are such as have the 

 flutings of the shaft filled with astragals 

 to about one-third of the height: called 

 also rudented columns. 



CA'BLED FLUTES, in architecture, are such 

 flutes as are filled with cables. 



CA'BLE'S-LENGTH, the measure of 120 

 fathoms, the usual length of a ship's cable. 



CA'BLE-TIER, the place where the cables 

 are coiled away. 



CA'BLING, the filling of the flutes of 

 columns with cables, or the cables so 

 disposed. 



CABO'CHED, ) Fr. eabochte. In heraldry, 



CABO'SHED, ) having the head cut close 

 so as to have no part of the neck left. 



CABOM'BEJE. In botany, the name given 

 to the order now called Hydropeltidets. 



CABOo'sE,Ger. kabuse, a little room. The 

 cook-room or kitchen of a ship. In 

 smaller vessels it is an inclosed fireplace, 

 hearth or stove, for cooking on the main- 

 deck. In a ship of war, the cook-room is 

 called the galley. Caboose also signifies 

 the box that covers the chimney in a ship. 

 The term appears to be formed of cabin 

 and house. 



CAB'RIOLET, a two-wheeled vehicle 

 drawn by one horse, and carrying two 

 passengers and a driver; frequently con- 

 tracted cab. The word is French, from 

 cabriolt, a goat- leap. Lat. capra, a goat. 



CikBc'>i, small lines made of spun 

 yarn, to bind cables, sei/e tackles, and 

 the llie. 



CAUA LIA. XOLKO.) ,a A . -nus of plants. 



, 



of the species are used in medicine. 



CA'CAO. \ 1. Chocolate, a kind of hard 



CA'COA. ) paste formed into a cake, the 



basis of which is the pulp of the cacao or 



chocolate nut, a production of the West 



Indies and South America. - 2. The 



seed or nuts of the cacao tree. - 3. The 

 cacao tree. 



CA'CAO-NCT, the fruit of the cacao-tree. 

 It somewhat resembles a cucumber in 

 shape, but is furrowed deeper on the 

 sides. Its colour while growing is green, 

 but as it ripens this changes to a fine 



purple, with pink 

 irieties, to a fine 



bluish-red, almost 

 veins ; or, in some 



yellow or lemon colour. Each pod con- 

 tains from 20 to 30 nuts or kernels, which 

 in shape are not unlike almonds, and con- 

 sist of a white and sweetish pulpy-like 

 substance, enveloped in a parchment- 

 like shell. 



CA'CAO-TREE, the Theobroma cacac, 

 which both in shape and si/e somewhat 

 resembles a young cherry-tree, but sepa- 

 rates, near the ground, into four or five 

 stems. The leaves are about four inches 

 long, of a dull green colour ; the flowers 

 are saffron coloured, and very beautiful. 

 The fruit is the cacao-nut. The cacao- 

 tree grows plentifully in the West Indies 

 and South America. 



CAC'ATORT FEVER, a species of intermit- 

 tent fever, accompanied with diarrhoea, 

 and sometimes with tormina. Cacare, to 

 go to stool. 



CA'CHALOT, the physeter or spermaceti 

 whale. Physeter, as well as physalus, 

 signifies blower. Cachalot is the name 

 used by the Biscayans, from cachau, 

 which in the Cantabrian dialect means 

 tooth. The head of the cachalot is enor- 

 mously large; the under-jaw is armed 



ith a range of cylindrical teeth ; the 

 superior portion of the head consists of 

 large cavities, filled with an oil which 

 becomes fixed as it cools, and is known in 

 commerce by the name spermaceti, a sub- 

 stance for which the cachalot is princi- 

 pally sought. The odorous substance 

 bergris is a concretion formed in the 

 intestines of the cachalot. 



CACHE'T, LETTRES DE, under the ancient 

 French government, letters signed with 

 the king's private seal, for the detention 

 of private citizens. Previous to the 17th 

 century they were seldom employed, but 

 in the reign of Louis XIV. they were 

 very common. In the reigns of Louis XV. 

 and XVI. 59 were issued against the 

 Mirabeau family. They were finally abcv- 

 lished in 1790. 



CA'CHOLONG, a milk-white variety of 

 quartz, having a pearly or glistening 





