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CABK'CAS (or Cabr'cas) RU'BIAS, a town of 
Spain, in the country of Seville, on the borders of Por¬ 
tugal : forty miles north-weft of Seville. 
CABE'CON, or Cabe'cox, a town of Spain, in the 
country of Leon, on the Pifuetjga: three leagues north- 
north-eait of Valladolid. 
CABE'CON, or Cabe-'^on 1 , a town of Spain, in the 
province of Afiliria: eighteen miles weft-iouth-weft of St. 
Andre., 
;CABE'GO, a river of Portugal, which runs into the 
Lima, (even miles above Ponte de Lima. 
CA'BEL ISLAND, a fmall' ifiand near the coaft of 
Ireland, on the fouth-vveit extremity of Yoiighajl Bay, in 
the county of Cork : three miles fouth of Youghali. 
CABEN'DA, a lea-port town of Africa, in the king¬ 
dom of I.oango. Lat. 4. 5. S. Ion. 12. 2. E. Greenwich. 
CA'BES, or Gabes, a town of Africa, in the country 
of Tunis, 2O0 miles fouth of Tunis. Lat. 33. 40. N. Ion. 
28. 30. E. Ferro. 
CABESTER'RE, or Le Maricot, a town of the 
ifiand of. Guadaloupe, on the eaft coalt. Lat. 16. 10. N. 
Ion. 43. 58. W. Ferro. 
CABEZ'ZO; a province .of. the kingdom of Angola, 
in Africa; having Oacco on the north, Lubolo on the 
fouth, the Coanza . on the north-eaft, and the Reinba.on 
the Couth-weft. It is populous, and hath a mine of iron 
on a mountain from thence called the Iron Mountain, which 
yields great quantities of that metal. 
CABI'DOS, or Ca vi'dos, f. along meafure ufed at 
Goa, and other places of the Ealt Indies belonging to the 
Portuguefe, to meafure (tuffs, linens, &c. equal to four- 
fevenths of the Paris ell. 
CABIL'LEN, a town of the duchy of Courland, ten 
miles ealt .of Goldingen. 
CA'BIN, f. [cabane, Fr. chabin, Wellh, a cottage. ] A 
fni'ali room'; a chamber in a fliip.—The chefsboard, we 
lay, is in the fame place it was, if it remain in the fame 
part of the cabin, though the (hip fails all the while. Locke. 
— A cottage, or (mail houfe.—Neither fliould that odious 
cuftom be allowed, of flaying oft' the green furface of the 
ground, to cover their cabins, or make up their ditches. 
Swift. —A tent, or temporary habitation : 
Some of green boughs their (lender cabins frame, 
Some lodged were Tortofa’s ftreels about.' Fairfax. 
To CA'BIN, v. n. To live in a cabin: 
I’ll make you feed on berries and on roots, 
And feed on curds and whey, and fuck the goat, 
And cabin in a cave. Shakefpeare. 
To.CA'BIN, v. a. To confine in a cabin : 
Fleance is ’fcap’d ; I Had elfe been perfect, 
As broad and general as the eating air; 
But now I’m cabin'd, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in, 
To fancy doubts and fear. Shakefpeare. 
CABI'NA, a town of Africa, in the country of Ca- 
congo, forty miles fouth of Cacongo. 
CA'BINED, adj. Belonging to a cabin: 
The nice morn, on the Indian deep, 
From her cabin'd loophole peep. Milton. 
CA'BTNET, f [ cabinet, Fr.] A clofet; a final! room. 
-—At both corners of the farther fide, let there be two de¬ 
licate or rich cal/incts, daintily paved, richly hanged, gla¬ 
zed with cryftalline glafs, and a rich cupola in the midft, 
and all other elegancy that may be thought on. Bacon. — 
A hut or fmall houfe : 
Hearken awhile in thy green cabinet, 
The laurel long of careful Colinet. Spcnfer, 
A private room in which confultations are held.—You be¬ 
gan in the cabinet what you afterwards praftilcd in the 
ramp. Drydcn: —A let of boxes or drawers for curiofities; 
a*private box ; 
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Who fees a foul in fuch a body fet, 
Might love the treafure for the cabinet. Bin Jonjon, 
Any place in which tilings of value are depofited : 
Thy bread hath ever been the cabinet , 
Where I have lock’d my fecrets. Denham . 
C A'BINET-COUNCIT,/ A council held in a private 
manner, with unufual privacy and confidence. A felect 
number of privy counfellors fuppofed to be particularly 
traded. 
To avoid the inconveniences of a difference in opinion, 
the policy of Italy and practice of France fird introduced 
cabinet-councils. Charles I. is charged with firll efta- 
blifliing this ufnge in England. Befides his privy council, 
that prince erected a cabinet, or junto, under the denomi¬ 
nation of a council of (late; compofed of. archbifhop 
Laud, the.earl of Strafford, lord Codington, the lecretaries 
of date, &c. 
CA'BI,NET-MAKER, J. One that makes drawers, 
defies; bureaus, &c.—The root of an old white-thorn will 
make very fine boxes; fo that they would be of great ufe 
for the cabinet-makers , as well as the turners and others. 
Mortimer. . 
CABl'RI, certain deities .whole worfiiip was held in 
the greateft veneration at Thebes and Lemnos, but more 
particularly in.the i (lands of Samothrace and Imbros. The 
number of thefe..deities is uncertain. Some fay there 
were only two, Jupiter and Bacchus; others mention 
three, and fome four, Atchieros, Achiocherfa, Achio- 
cherfus, and Camillus. It is unknown where their wor- 
(hip was fird edablifhed; yet Phoenicia feems to be the 
place according to the authority of Sanchoniathon, and 
from thence it was introduced into Greece by the Pelafgi. 
The redivals or myderies of the Cabiri were celebrated 
with the greatell folemnity at Samothrace, where all the 
ancient heroes and princes.vvere generally initiated, as their 
power leemed to be great in protebling perfons from fliip- 
wreck and dorms. The obfeenities which prevailed in the 
celebration have obliged the authors of every country to 
pafs over them in (ilence, and fay that it was unlawful to 
reveal them. Thefe deities are often confounded with the 
Corybantes, Anaces, Diofcuri, See. and, according to He¬ 
rodotus, Vulcan was their father. This author mentions 
the facrilege which Cambyfes committed in entering their 
temple, and turning to ridicule their (acred myderies. 
They were fuppofed to prefide over metals. Herodotus. 
CA'BLE;yi \_cabl, Wellh ; cabel, Dut.] The great.rope 
of a diip to which the anchor is fadened.—The length of 
the cable is the life of the fliip in all extremities; and the 
reafon is, becaufe it makes fo many bendings and waves, 
as the drip, riding at that length, is not able to (tretch it 3 
and nothing breaks that is not dretched. Raleigh. 
The cables crack ; the failors fearful cries 
Afcend ; and fable night involves.the fkies. Dryden. 
There is no fliip, however weak, but ftiould have at 
lead three cables ; namely, the chief cable, or cable of the 
(beet-anchor, a common cable, and a lmaller one. Cable 
is alfo faid of ropes, which'ferve to raife heavy loads, by 
the help of cranes, pullies, and other tackle. The name 
of cable is ufually given to fuch as have, at lead, three 
inches in circumference ; thofe that are lefs are only called 
ropes. Every cable, of whatfoever thicknefs it be, is com¬ 
pofed of three (hands; every flrand of three ropes; and 
every rope of three tvvids: the twid is made of more or 
lefs threads, according as the cable is to be thicker or 
thinner. The number of threads each cable is compofed 
of is always proportioned to its length and thicknefs; and 
it is by this number of threads that its weight and value 
are afeertained: thus, a cable of three inches circumfe¬ 
rence, or one inch diameter, ought to confifl of forty-eight 
ordinary threads, and to weigh 1921b. and from.this given 
ftandard of the ('mailed cable, all the intermediate (izes 
are determined, up to the largeft of twenty inches circum¬ 
ference, which contains 1943 threads, and weighs 77721b. 
