cabbage-tree 
cabbage-tree (kati'aj-trii), . 1. A name given 
to many species of palms Ilie tender (jrowiiu; 
leaf -buds of which are useil us a vegeialile. 1 1,, 
' ' l n-,-, ,,i oabbtgB, palmetto, of the si >u them I nite.l 
States, fialxil I'aliiie.ttn, is a fan leafed palm growing to 
Ihe height of from ;;u to .,ll feet. The cabbage tree of the 
West Ilulics, the tree most Generally klloun a.s tile i-flt, 
Itinii' /mint, is H speri. - ..i ii,, , ,./,,. ri/ (formerly inelllileil in 
the ^'enns Areca), O. o/eivr. , ,i. a lilv and x'aecful palm 
with II straight cylim I rie il tnink sometime. I r"on I, , I 
high, bcarill'4 a head of IMITJ pinnate leaves. Tile eal,b:i-- 
Is the terminal leaf-hud, the removal of which, thouuli 
often clone, destroys tile live. The Australian caliba^c 
1 1 ' . I < a 1:1 1 1 lr;ilr, 1 |j:tlm. /. ,.-!>, i" <u'+ti v//;.< 
2. A name given to species of .t ndirn. loffumi- 
IIOUH trees of tropical America, bearing racemes 
of red flowers and roundish, hard, one-seeded 
pods, and yielding the anthelmintic cabbage- 
tree bark of pharmacists. Jamaica cabbage-tree 
hark, also called iniriii-lmrk, is obtained from .1. /n, ,,,. 
a native of the West Indies, and the Surinam hark from 
A. return, found in Surinam and Cayenne. A similar hark 
is furnished by .1. niitln'liHintiea of Brazil. 
3. In New Zealand, an arborescent liliaceous 
plant, Cordyline mdivixu.- Black cabbage-tree, an 
arboreous composite of St. He- 
lena. Mi'lit null- n'/i-", i <nte.<rrij'ti. 
I in in, one of the few endemic 
trees still remaining on the hi 
and. 
cabbage -wood (kab'aj- 
wiid), M. A name given to 
the wood of Krindcndnm 
anfractiimum, and to that 
of species of Andira. See \\ BU <! 
747 
Cabirian 
cabidget, ". An obsolete form of cabbage*. War, the Xavy, the Interior, and Agriculture, the Pottmas- 
Cabin (kali'in), . [< ME. i-iiliii,i, , -n 1,,,'ui, also ter.()eneral,and Ihe Attorney <.. n, nil. They are ap|K.lnt 
assibihiteil i-hiiluini- -i lit tie In, n eilbyth, iTealilrnt, hy and with Ihe dice and . 
, ' '"'; ". "' ' ' ' ' "' , "Jit" , ' "' " 1<! 8en te ' " nd re re.nov.hle at the ITealdenfi plea- 
esp. in a ship, < Ot . cabinn, I. (Ml- . also rahum. sure. They have 
m.), K. i-<ihiiii< (also crtftie after E. cabin) = Pr. 
culiiina = Sp. eabaiia = I'K. cabana = It. e///i- 
nii. < ML. i-iiiniiiiin. a cabin, prob. of Celtic ori- 
gin : W. caban = Ir. Gael, caban, a cabin, booth, 
dim. of (W.) cub, a booth, a hut.] 1. A hut; a 
cottage; a small house or habitation, especially 
one that is poorly constructed. 
Some of Kreen houghs their slender cabin* frame. 
fair/ax. 
:iie peat invs of a hundred thousand cabin* had 
niu'htly been sung rude ballads which predicted the deliv- 
erance of the oppressed race. Macaulaii, Hist. Eng., xli. 
2. A small room ; an inclosed place. 
So long in secret cabin there he held 
Her captive to hi sensual! dcsyre. 
F. Q., I. vl. &. 
u a body no li-ml function!, hut by 
caitoro meet the ITeoldent at lUted times for consult*- 
""" , Th<! '"" caMnf Is also iometlnie* applied to the 
COUI " :a f " gOTernor or 
antagonism l,,ine.n thi ".iirt and the ad- 
ministration, between the curia and the camera, or in 
modem language the court ami the cabin.i. that many of 
the constitutional i|iiarrels of the century are owing. 
Sttiltlu. Const, lllst, t 447. 
9. A meeting or session of a cabinet council. 
Cabinet after Cabinet passed over, ami no mention wan 
ever made of the affairs of the East, till one day, at tin- 
end of iCabinct, I'almerston, in tin most easy, noncha- 
lant way imaginable, said that he tl K ht it right to 
mention that he had been a long time engaged in n. -> 
tiatiou upon the principles agreed upon at the fabinrt at 
Windsor, and that he had drawn up a Treaty with which 
it was tit that the Cabinet should lie acquainted. 
K* '."""' ''( /''., I.XXXIII. 74. 
look 
cabbage-worm (kab ' aj - 
werm), M. The larva of the 
cabbage -butterfly or of the 
cabbage-moth, 
cabbala, . Bee cabala. 
cabbidget, " An obsolete 
form of cabbage^ . 
cabbish ' t (kab'ish). H. An 
obsolete and more original 
form of cabbtiae 1 . 
cabbish 2 (kab ish), r. t. An obsolete and dialec- 
tal form of cabbage 3 . 
cabbie (kab'i), p. t. or i. ; pret. and pp. cabbled, 
ppr. cobbling. [Origin unknown ; cf . accablt; 
< F. accabler, crush, overwhelm.] In metal., to 
break up into pieces (iron which has been 
smelted with charcoal, balled, and flattened), 
preparatory to the processes of fagoting, fus- 
ing, and rolling into bars. 
cabbler (kab'ler), . In metal., one who cabbies. 
cabby 1 (kab'i), w. ; pi. cabbies (-iz). [< coil ; a 
kind of dim. of cabman.] A cab-driver or cab- 
man. [Colloq., Eng.] 
cabby 2 (kab'i), a. [< caJft + -yl.] Sticky: 
clammy. [Prov. Eng.] 
cabeca (ka-ba'sa), . [Pg., lit. head, chief, = 
Sp. cubczn, < L. caput, ntad.] 1. The Portu- 
guese name of the finest kind of silk received 
from India, as distinguished from the bariya, 
or inferior kind. Also called cabesse. 2. A 
nominal money of account in gome parts of the 
west coast of Africa. 
Oabeiri, . i>l. See Cabiri. 
Cabeirian, Cabeiric, a. See Cabirian. 
Oabeiritic, a. See Cabiritic. 
caber (ka'ber), ii. [Sc., also written cabir, kabnr; 
< Gael. cabur, a pole, stake, rafter, = IT. cabar, 
a coupling ; cf. Corn, keber, W. ceibrcn, a rafter; 
D. kepcr, a rafter.] A pole; a rafter; abeam; 
a large stick. Specifically () A long peeled sapling 
or undressed stem of a young tree used in the Highland (or 
Scottish) game of tossing the eaher. (b) One of the peeled 
saplings sometimes placed, instead of hoards, on the tie- 
heama of a cottage to form the kind of loft called the halks, 
or on tile rafters to form a support for the thatch, (r) A 
transverse beam in a kiln for drying grain. Jamieton. 
Caberea (ka-be're-a), . [NL.] The typical 
genus of the family Cabereidee. C. hookeri, a 
European species, is an example. 
Cabereidas (kab-e-re'i-de), H. pi. [NL., < Ca- 
berea + -idee.] A family of infundibulate chi- 
lostomatous polyzoans, of the order ()ymnol<r- 
Hintd, having an unjointed stock with slender 
branches, and two or more rows of cells with 
vibracula or sessile avicularia at the back. 
The species are generally associated with the 
Cellulu riidfc. Less correctly written Cabereadu: 
cabesse (ka-bes'), . [F., < Pg. cabeca: see ca- 
6ey.] Same as cabcca, 1. 
cabezon (kab'e-zon; Sp. pron. ka-beth-6n'), 
a. ( s i'..< t'ii/ie~a. head: see cabeca, cavezon.] 
Same as liir/liead. 
cabiai (ka-be'i), . [Braz.] A Brazilian name 
of the capibara. [Little used.] 
A niiihir. " which can be attributed only to a gigantic 
Mbiui, or a dwarf elephant. Pap. Sci. 3lu.. XXVI. 42s. 
3. An apartment in a ship for officers or pas- 6. A piece of furniture having shelves or draw - 
sengers. In passenger-steamers the cabin is divided Into ere - or botn > or simply cupboards inclosed with 
state-rooms, or the private rooms of the passengers, and doors ; especially, one of ornamental character, 
aii apartment (sometimes more than one) for the use of decorated with carving, inlaying, painting, 
all, called the nal>mH, generally lined as a dining-room. In I.,,,,,,.,,., mprlallinnii of iminto'rl MM nr 
an ordinary merchant vessel tlie cabin is the apartment ie , r > j 1 n8 ,? 1 P w -Clain, o 
01 ruiiied by the master of the vessel. In a man-of-war it 
is the apart nt use. I by the commanding offlcer, or the 
oitieer commanding the squadron, the apartments of the 
othei officers lieing called the mtra-roout and (of the putty 
otlicers) the iteeraye. In Oreat Britain the word cabin, 
when applied to the private apartment of an officer or a 
passenger, is synonymous with ttate-room as used in the 
United States. 
4f. Same as cabinet, 4. 
They would not stay perhaps the Spanish demurring, 
and putting off such wholesome acts and counsels as the 
politic Cabin at Whitehall had no mind to. 
Milton, Eikouoklastes, iv. 
Jealous haughtinesse of Prelates andcoMnConnsellours. 
Milton, Areopagitlca, p. .1. 
After-cabin, the best or stern cabin of a vessel. Cabin 
car. See carl. Cabin passenger, one who has the best 
accommodation a ship affords. Second cabin, the part 
of a steamship allotted to the use of intermediate or 
second-class passengers, or the general accommodation 
afforded them. 
cabin (kab'in), v. [< cabin, .] I. trans. To 
confine as in a cabin. 
But now I am cabin'd, eribb'd, confln'd, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. .Shale., Macbeth, Hi. 4. 
II. intraim. To live in a cabin ; lodge. 
I'll make you feed on berries, and on roots. 
And feed oh curds and whey, and suck the goat, 
And cabin in a cave. Shot.. Tit. And., iv. 2. 
enamel or metal appliques. 
Within, in my blue ealrinrt, for the pearl 
I had sent me last. B. ,/ounrm, Catiline. II. 1. 
7. Any part of a building, or one or more whole 
buildings, set apart for the conservation of 
works of art, antiquities, etc. ; hence, by me- 
tonymy, the collection itself: as, a mineral 
cabinet. 8. In i>rintina, au inclosed frame for 
printers' cases, generally used for job-type. 
Cabinet of arms, a display of the escutcheons, together 
with the sword, spurs, and the like, of a gentleman after 
his decease. In certain {tarts of Europe these are arranged 
in a frame and hung upon the wall of a church, after the 
funeral. Beny. Kitchen cabinet, in U. S. hint., a Co- 
terie of intimate friends of President Jackson, generally 
supposed to have more influence with him during his presi- 
dency <18'ffl-37) than his official advisers: so called in allu- 
sion to their private and familiar status, as if admitted to 
the White House through the kitchen. 
From the Kitchen Cabinet seems to have come the first 
proposition to make the "national conventions," which are 
customary even to the present day. . . . the exponent* of 
the " will of the i>eople." //. ton Haiti, Const Hist, II. 38. 
II. a. 1. Confidential; secret; private. 
Others still gape t' anticipate 
The cabinet designs of Kate. 
5. r.t!.,. Hudlbras, II. ill. 24. 
2. Relating to a cabinet ; belonging to or con- 
, . 1_ _ /l -L.f 1. '\ A m- , 1 "' i^'wul'K V" * U11ICH, i" I'Ml^lll;; iv v/1 cull- 
cabin-boy (kab m-boi), n. A boy employed to gt ituting a body of ministers of state: as, a 
wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin ea bi ne t minister; a cabinet council. 3. Be- 
of a ship. 
longing to a private collection, private cellar, 
cabined (kab'ind) a. [< cabin + -d2.] Con- or the like, and therefore presumably of supe- 
nned; narrow. [Rare.] nor quality: as, cabinet wines. Hence 4. Of 
Ere the blabbing eastern scout, 
The nice morn, on the Indian steep, 
From her cabin'it loop-hole peep. 
Miltoit, Comus, 
cabinet (kab'i-uet), . and a. 
such size, beauty, or value as to be kept in a 
eabinet, or to be fitted for use in a private 
.140. chamber: as, a cabinet edition of a book; a 
[< F. culiiiii-i. a cabinet organ; a cabinet pianoforte; a cabinet 
picture; cabinet photographs Cabinet council. 
(nt) IMvate counsel ; secret advice. 
Those are cabinet ,-,,i, ,;!.. 
And not to be communicated. 
Maturinger, Duke of Milan, U. L 
(6) (1) A council held with privacy ; the confidential coun- 
cil of a prince or an executi ve magistrate ; a council of cab- 
inet ministers held with privacy to deliberate upon pub- 
lic affairs. rJ)The mem tiers of a privy council ; a select 
numb, r of confidential counselors; specifically, same as 
cabinet, I., i. -Cabinet file, see >/<'. Cabinet organ, 
a small, portable organ, usuallv a reed-organ or harmo- 
nium. 
closet, a receptacle of curiosities, etc. ; cf. OF. 
cabanette, a little cabin (= It. cabiiietto Florio), 
dim. of cabane, cabiitc, a cabin: see cabin.} I. 
n. If. A little cabin ; a small habitation or re- 
treat. 
Hearken awhile, from thy greene cabinet, 
The rurall song of carefull Collnet. 
Spetuer, Shep. Cal., Decemlicr. 
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, 
From hU moist cabinet mounts up on high. 
.SAnt., Vjmu and Adonis, 1. 854. 
2. A small room ; a retired apartment ; a closet. 
3. A private room in which consultations are cabinet (kab'i-net), r. f. [< cabinet, .] To in- 
held; specifically, the closet or private apart- close in or as in a cabinet. [Rare.] 
ment in which a sovereign confers with his This is the frame of most men's spiriu to adore the 
casket and contemn the jewel that U cabinetled in It 
Heirtrt, Sermons, p. 87. 
cabinet-maker (kab'i-net-ma'ker), n. [< cab- 
inet, 6, + maker.] One whose occupation is 
the making of household furniture, such as 
cabinets, sideboards, tables, bedsteads, etc. 
/'),,, Kenl. and Isa., II. 14. Cabin-mate (kab'in-mat), n. [< cnhiii + mate 1 .] 
Though bred in the cloister, he distinguished himself One who occupies the same cabin with another. 
both in the cabinet and the camp Bean, and H. 
'' " Kl ' r ' 1 ' H1 " 1 Isa " " -' cabir, . See caber. 
Hence 4. An executive council; the select Cabirean (kab-i-re'an), . [< Cabiri + -caw.] 
council of a sovereign or of an executive govern- One of the Cabiri. " 
privy council or most trusted ministers. 
You liegan in the cabinet what you afterwards practised 
in the camp. ttnitlrii. 
Those more refined arts of the cabinet, on which the 
Italians were accustomed to rely, much more than on the 
sword, in their disputes with one another, were of no 
avail against these rude invaders. 
of ministers called the cabinet, which is of comparatively 
i lern development. Every cabinet includes the First 
Lord of the Treasury, who is generally chief of the minis- 
try, or prime minister, the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord 
I 'resileut of theCounofl, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
and the five Secretaries 
mem 
States ' 
laent 01 tne rouncii, tne i nancenoroi tne rAcnequer. into otner place*. 
the nve Secretaries of State, with two or more other Cabirian, Cabirfc (ka-bir'i-an. -ik), a. f< 
hers, at the prime ministers disci etion. In the Tinted , + ' -j p erte i nin to the Cabil 
's the cabinet is a collective popular name, not recog- ... /. 
and hence falling into the category of the deities 
of fire and of creative life. They were worship 
in mysteries celebrated especially in the islands of Lenm>. 
Imhros. and Samothrace, whence their cult was Introduced 
into other placet. 
Cfl- 
or 
>->Lnvra iir <:<*UIIM[ is tt CIHICCHU po|'uiar name, not rccuK- ,, . -_, f . 
nixed by law. for the heads of the eight executive depart- their worship; hence, strange and mysterious; 
ments, namely, the SecreUriea of State, the Treasury, occult. Also spelled Cabeirian, r-*-~~- 
