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in the sight of God, as the most careful dis- 
charge of their duty, for the space of a w hole 
year, in any other temple. 
CAB, an Hebrew dry measure, containing 
two five-sixths pints of our corn-measure, 
CABALLEROS, or Cavali.eros, are 
Spanish wools, of which there is a consider- 
able trade at Bayonne, in France. 
cabbage, sec Brassica. 
Any person who shall steal, or take away, 
or maliciously pull up and destroy, any tur- 
nips, potatoes, cabbages, parsnips, peas, or 
carrots, growing in any lands, &<?. shall, on 
conviction before one justice, by confession, 
or oath of one witness, forfeit, over and above 
the value of the goods stolen, a sum not ex- 
ceeding 20,v. one half to the owner of the 
goods, and one half to the poor. 
CABBALA, according to the Hebrew 
style, lias a very different signification from 
that wherein we understand it in our lan- 
guage. The Hebrew cabbala signifies tradi- 
tion ; and the rabbis, who are called cabba- 
lists, study principally the combination of 
particular words, letters, and numbers, and 
by this means pretend to discover what is to 
come, and to see clearly into the sense of 
many difficult passages in scripture : there 
are no sure principles of this knowledge, but 
it depends upon some particular traditions 
of the antients ; for which reason it is termed 
cabbala. 
The cabbalists have abundance of names, 
which they call sacred ; these they make use 
of in invoking of spirits, and imagine that 
they receive great light from them. They 
tell us that the secrets of the cabbala were 
discovered to Moses on mount Sinai, and 
that these have been delivered down to them 
from father to son, without interruption, and 
without any use of letters ; for to write them 
down is what they are by no means per- 
mitted to do. 'i ins is likewise termed the 
oral law, because it passed from father to son, 
in order to distinguish it from the written laws. 
There is another cabbala, called artificial, 
which consists in searching for abstruse and 
mysterious significations of a word in scrip- 
ture, whence they borrow certain explana- 
tions, by combining the letters which com- 
pose it.; This cabbala is divided into three 
kinds, the gematrie, the notaricon, and the 
temura or ttiemurah : the first of which con- 
sists in taking the letters of a Hebrew word 
for cyphers or arithmetical numbers, and 
explaining every word by the arithmetical 
value of the letters whereof it is composed. 
The second sort of cabbala, called notaricon, 
consists in taking every particular letter of a 
word for an entire diction; and the third, 
called themurah, i. e. change, consists in 
making different transpositions or changes of 
letters, placing one for the other, or one be- 
fore the other. 
Among the Christians likewise, a certain 
sort of magic is by mistake called cabbala, 
which consists in using improperly certain 
passages of scripture for magic operations, or 
in forming magic characters or figures with 
stars and talismans. 
Some visionaries among the Jews believe 
that Jesus Christ wrought his miracles by 
virtue of the mysteries of the cabbala. 
CABECA, or Cabesse, a name given to 
the finest silks in the East Indies, as those 
from 15 to 20 per cent, inferior to them are 
called barina. 
CABTDOS, or Cavipos, a long measure 
used at Goa, and in other places of the East 
Indies belonging to the Portuguese, to mea- 
sure stuffs, linens, &c. and equal to four- 
sevenths of the Paris ell. 
CABLE, a thick, large, strong rope, com- 
monly of hemp, which serves to keep a ship 
at anchor. There is no merchant ship, how- 
ever small, but has at least three cables; viz. 
the chief cable, or cable of the' sheet anchor, 
a common cable, and a smaller one. Cable 
is also said of ropes which serve to raise 
heavy loads, by the help of cranes, pulleys, 
and other engines. The name of cable is 
usually given to such as have at least three 
inches in diameter ; those that are less are 
only called ropes, of different names accord- 
ing to their use. Every cable, of what thick- 
ness soever it may be, is composed of three 
strands, every strand of three ropes, and 
every rope of three twists ; the twist is made 
of more or less threads, according as the 
cable is to be thicker or thinner. In the ma- 
nufacture of cables, after the ropes are made, 
they use sticks, which they pass first between 
the ropes of which they make the strands, 
and afterwards between the strands of which 
they make the cable, to the end that they 
may all twist the better, and be more regu- 
larly wound together; and also, to | * event 
them from twining or intangling, they hang 
at the end of each strand and ot each rope, a 
weight of lead or of stone. The number of 
threads each cable is composed of is always- 
proportioned to its length and thickness ; and 
it is by this number of threads that its weight 
and value are ascertained. Thus a cable of 
three inches circumference. 
or one inch dia- 
meter, ought 
to consist 
of 48 ordinary 
threads, and weigh 192 pounds: and on this 
foundation is calculated the 
following table. 
Circumf. 
Threads, 
Weight. 
3 inches. 
48 
192 pounds. 
4 
77 
308 
5 
121 
484 
6 
174 
696 
7 
238 
952 
8 
311 
1244 
9 
393 
1572 
19 
485 
1940 
i 1 
598 
2392 
12 
699 
2796 
13 
821 
3284 
14 
952 
3808 
15 
1093 
4372 
16 
1244 
4976 
17 
1404 
56 1 6 
18 
1574 
6296 
19 
1 754 
7016 
20 
1943 
7772. 
A patent has been taken 
out within these 
few months by Mr. Haddart, for improve- 
ments in the manufacture of cables. 
Pay more Cable, is to let more out of the 
ship. Pay cheap the cable, is to hand it out 
apace. Veer more cable, is to let more out, 
&c. 
Cable’s length, is 120 fathoms. This re- 
gulates the distance ot ships of war when 
formed into a line of battle, which is ordered 
to be one or more cables length. 
Slip the Cable, is to let it run quite out 
when there is not time to weigh the anchor: 
this is preferable to cutting it. Before it is 
either cut or slipped, a spare buov-rope 
should be passed through the hawse-hole, 
N n 2 
and fastened near the end, with a rolling- 
nitch, that it and the anchor may be ea.fiy 
regained. 
CABLED, in heraldry, a term applied A 
a cross formed of the two ends of a ship’s 
cable. 
CABOCHED, in heraldry, is when the 
Heads of beasts are borne without any part of 
the neck, full faced. 
CABOLETTO, in commerce, a coin of 
the republic of Genoa, worth about three 
pence of our money. 
CACALIA, in botany, Alpine colt’s-foot, 
a genus of the polyganna aiquaiis order, and 
syngenesia class of plauts. The receptacle 
is naked; the pappus hairy ; the calyx cylin- 
drical, oblong, and calycea, or having a small 
calyx of very short scales only at the base. 
There are 33 species : the most remarkable 
are ; 
1 . Cacalia ficoides, a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. It rises with strong round, 
stalks to the height of seven or eight feet. 
The flowers are in small umbels; they are 
white, tubulous, and cut into live parts at the 
top. The leaves are pickled by the French, 
who esteem them much. They have a me- 
thod of preserving the white farina upon 
them, which adds greatly to the beauty of the 
pickle when brought to table. 
2. Cacalia kleinia,with a compound shrub- 
by stalk. It grows naturally in the Canary 
islands, but has long been cultivated in the 
English gardens. There have been stones 
and fossils dug up at a very great depth in 
some parts ol England having very perfect im- 
pressions of this plant upon them. This plant 
lias been called the cabbage-tree, from the 
resemblance which the stalk of it has to the 
cabbage. Others have entitled it carnation- 
tree, from Ihe shape of the leaves and the 
colour of the flowers. 
CACHEXY, in medicine, such a disposi- 
tion of the body as depraves the nourishment 
throughout its whole habit. See Medicine. 
CACHRYS, a genus of the digynia order, 
and pentandria class of plants; and in the na- 
tural method ranking under the 45th order, 
umbellate. The fruit is subovate, angled, 
and cork or spongy rinded. There are live 
species, viz. 
1. Cachrys hungarica, with a plain, fun- 
gous, channelled seed. 2. Cachrys libanotis, 
with smooth furrowed seeds. 3. Cachrys li- 
nearis, with plain channelled fruit. 4. Ca- 
chrys sicula, with double -winged leaves. 
5. Cachrys trifida, with bipinnated leaves. 
AH these are perennial plants, rising pretty 
high, and bearing large umbels of yel- 
low flowers, and may be propagated by 
seeds. 
CACTUS, melon thistle : a genus of tin* 
monogynia order, and ieosandria class of 
plants; and in tin* natural method ranking 
under the 13th order, sueeulentax The calyx 
is monophyllous, superior, or above the re- 
ceptacle of the fruit, imbricated; the corolla 
polypetalous; the fruit an unilocular poly- 
spermous berry. To this genus Linnaeus has 
added the cereus and opuntia. See Plate 
Nat. Hist. fig. 71. The cacti are plants of 
a singular structure. When the plants are 
cut through the middle, their inside is a 
soft, pale-green, fleshy substance, very full 
of moisture. The fruits of all the species are 
frequently eaten by the inhabitants of the 
W est Indies. They are about three-fourth- 
