CAB 
made to it by devout mftlTulmans from every nation where 
Mahometanifm prevails. See Mecca. 
CAA'MINr,/ A name given by the Spaniards to the 
fineft fort of Paraguayan tea. It is the leaf of a fhrub 
which grows on the mountains of Maracaya, and is ufed 
in Chili and Peru, from whence it is brought into Spain, 
where it is held in very high efiimation. 
CAA'NA, a town of Egypt, on the call fide of the Nile, 
from whence they fend corn and fruit to Mecca : there are 
fome beautiful monuments charged with hieroglyphics: 
260 miles fouth of Cairo, 
CAAN'THUS, a fon of Oceanus and Teihys. He was 
ordered by his father to feek his lifter Malia, w horn Apollo 
had carried away, and burnt in revenge the ravither’s tem¬ 
ple near the ifthmns, He was killed for this impiety by 
the god, and a monument railed to his memory. Pauf. 9. 
CAAPE'BA,/! in botany. See Cissampei.us. 
CAAPOMON'GA,yi in botany. See Plumbaco. 
CAB, f faj? Heb.j; An Hebrew dry meafure, being 
the lixth part of a feah or fatum, and the eighteenth part 
of an ephah, A cab contained 2$- pints of our corn mea¬ 
fure : a quarter cab was the meafure of dove’s dung, or 
more properly a fort of chick-peafe called by this name, 
which w as fold at Samaria, during the fiege of that city, 
for live ffiekels. 
CAB (Ben Zohair), an Arabian poet, who ft on ri filed 
before the introdudtion of Mufthlmanifm. He lived to 
the time of Mahomet, and died the firft year of the he- 
gira. He declared himfelf the enemy of the prophet, 
who, on his part, proclaimed that it was lawful for the 
Mulfulmans to make away with him. This profeription 
terrified him fo much, that he attempted a reconciliation. 
In order to this, he compofed a poem called Banat Soad, 
on account of its beginning with thofe words; and in it 
he inferted a dtflich where he fays that the pardon of God 
may always be hoped for till death. This diftich had fuch 
an effort on Mahomet, that be forgave lnm. 
CABAIGU'AN, a town of the ifland of Cuba r thirty- 
five miles fouth-eaft of Ville del Principe, 
CABAL ',/1 [cabale, Fr. nSsp Heb. tradition. ] A body 
• of men united in fome clofe defign. A cabal differs from 
a party , as Jew from many. —She often interpofed her royal 
authority, to break the cabals which were forming againft 
her firft miniffers. Addifon. —Intrigue ; fomething lefs 
than confpiracy : 
When each, by curs’d cabals of women, ftrovc 
To draw th’ indulgent king to partial love, Drydcn. 
To CABAL', v. n. [cabaler, Fr.] To form clofe in¬ 
trigues ; to intrigue ; to unite in (mail parties : 
What thofe caballing captains may defign, 
I muft prevent, by being firft in artion. Drydcn. 
CA'BALIST,jf. One (killed in the traditions of the 
Hebrews. 
C ABALLIS'TlC,or Cab a elistica l, adj. Something 
that has an occult meaning.—The letters are caballijlical, 
and carry more in them than it is proper for the world to 
be acquainted with. Addifon. —He taught him to repeat 
two eabaliiflic words, in pronouncing of which the w hole 
fecret coniifted. SpcEiator. 
C AB ALLA'RIA,/". in the feudal fyftem, lands held 
by the tenure of furnilhing a horfeman, with fu-i table equi¬ 
page, in time of war, or when the lord had occafion for 
his fervice. 
CAB AL'LER,/ 1 ! Fie that engages with others in clofe 
delighs; an intriguer : 
Fartious and rich, bold at the council board ; 
But, cautious in the field, he fhunn’d the fword ; 
A clofe caballer, and tongue-valiant lord. Diydcn. 
CABAL'LINE, adj. \_caballinus, Lat.] Belonging to a 
horfe •, as, caballine aloes, means horfe aloes. 
CABALLI'NUM, anciently a town of the TEdui in 
Gallia Celtica j now Ckal'on fur Same. 
CAB 57 i 
CAB ALLI'NUS, anciently a clear fountain of mount 
Helicon in Boeotia, confecrated to the mules; called Hippo- 
crene by the Greeks, becaufc opened by Pegafus on linking 
the .rock with his hoof, and hence called Pegaf us. 
CABAL'LIO, or Cabei.i.io, anciently a town of the 
Cavares in Gallia Narbonenfis, lituated on the Druentiu. 
One of the Latin colonics, in the Notitue called Civitas 
Cabcllicorum. Now Cavaillcn in Provence. 
CABA'MO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of An¬ 
gola, on tlie river Coanza. Lat. 9. 56. S. Ion. 16. 15. E. 
Ferro. 
CABA'NE, a town - of South America, in the country 
of Brafil, and government of St. Paul. 
CABA'NS (lies), a town of France, in the department 
of the Tarn : four leagues north-weft of Alby. 
CABAN'NES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Arreige, and chief place of a canton, in the diliriet 
of Tarafcon : two leagues fouth-eaft of Tarafcon. 
CABARET',/! [Fr.] A tavern.—Suppofe this fer- 
vant, palling by fome cabaret, or tennis-court where his 
comrades were drinking or playing, Ihould ftay with them, 
and drink or play away his money. Bramhalt. 
CABARET A, a fmail ifland, near the north coaft of 
Jamaica. Lat. iS-. 24. N. Ion. 76. 40. W. Greenwich. 
C A BAR IT'T A, a river on the fouth fide of the ifland 
of Jamaica, which runs into the fea, about a mile and a 
half well from Savanna la Mer. 
CAB'S AGE,/, in botany. See Bra'SSICA. 
To CAB'BAGE, v. a. To form a head; as, the plants 
begin to cabbage. 
To CAB'BAGE, v. a. A cant word among taylors, to 
Heal in cutting clothes.—Your taylor, inltead of.lhreads, 
cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbutkuol. 
CAB'BAGE-TREF, f. in botany. See Areca, and 
Cacalia Kleinia. 
CAB'BALA,/] [rrissp Heb. tradition.]. A term tiled 
for any magical or myfterious interpretation of certain oc¬ 
cult Icicnces, or abllrufe parts of the mathematics. A- 
mong the Jews, it denotes a traditional explanation of the 
Old Teftament, as expounded by their priefts or rabbins. 
They pretend that the fecrets of the cabbala were difeo- 
vered to Mofes on mount Sinai ; and that thefe have been 
delivered down to them from father to fon, without inter¬ 
ruption, and without any ufe of letters; for to write them, 
is what they are by no means permitted fo do. This is 
likewife termed the oral law, becaufc it palfed from father 
to foil, in-order to dillinguilh it from the written law. 
CA-B'BALfSTS, the Jewilh doctors or rabbins who 
profefs the l-huiy of the cabbala. In the opinion of thefe 
men, there is not a word, letter, or accent, in the law, 
without fome myftery in it. The Jett's are divided into 
two general ferts ; the karaites-, who reftife to receive ci¬ 
ther tradition or the talmud', or any thing hut the pure 
texts of Scripture ; and the rahbinifts, or falmndifts, who, 
befides this, receive the traditions of the ancients and fol¬ 
low the talmud. The latter are again divided into two 
other ferts; pure rahbinifts, who explain the Scripture in 
its natural fenfe, by grammar, hillory, and tradition; and 
cabbalifts, who, to dileover hidden or myllical fenfes, 
make life of the cabbala, and the myllical methods above- 
mentioned. 
CABE, a river of Spain, which runs into the Minho, a 
little to the weft of Orenfe in Galicia. 
CABE'CA, or Cabe$:a, /. A name given to the fineft 
filks in the Ealt Indies, to diftingui-lh them from the infe¬ 
rior forts, which are called barina. 
CABE'CA (or Cabf^a) DE VTDE, a town of Portu¬ 
gal, in the province of Alentejo, with a flrong caftle •. three 
leagues fouth of O Crato. 
C ABE'CAS, or C a itn c as, a town of the iilandof Cuba : 
130 miles fouth-weft of Havanna. 
CABE'CAS, or CtBryAS (Las), a town of Spain, in 
the province of Andaluiia; it contains feveral ruins, w hich 
indicate that it was once a large city : tour leagues fouth 
of Seville. 
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