CABIREAN
CABIREAN, noun One of the Cabiri.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CABIREAN, noun One of the Cabiri.
CABIRIAN,CABIRIC,CABIRITIC, adjective Pertaining to the Cabiri, certain deities greatly venerated by the ancient Pagans, in Greece and Phenicia. The accounts of these deities ar...
CABLE, noun cabl. A large strong rope or chain, used to retain a vessel at anchor. It is made usually of hemp or iron, but may be made of other materials. Cables are of differen...
CABLE-TIER, noun The place where the cables are coiled away.
CABLED, adjective Fastened with a cable.
CABLET, noun A little cable.
CABOCHED,CABOOSE, noun1. The cook-room or kitchen of a ship. In smaller vessels, it is an inclosed fire-place, hearth or stove for cooking, on the main deck. In a ship of war, t...
CABOOSE, n.1. The cook-room or kitchen of a ship. In smaller vessels, it is an inclosed fire-place, hearth or stove for cooking, on the main deck. In a ship of war, the cook roo...
CABOS, noun A species of eel-pout, about two feet long, whose flesh is well tasted.
CABOSHED, noun In heraldry, having the head cut close, so as to have no neck left.
CABRIOLE,CABRIOLET, noun A gig; a one horse chair, a light carriage.
CABRIOLET, n. A gig; a one horse chair, a light carriage.
CABURE, noun A Brazilian bird of the owl kind, of the size of a thrush, of a beautiful umber color, spotted with white.
CABURNS, noun Small lines made of spun yarn, to bind cables, seize tackles, and the like.
CACAO or COCOA, noun The chocolate-tree, a species of the Theobroma, a native of the West Indies. This tree grows about twenty feet high, bearing pods which are oval and pointed...
CACCOONS, noun A plant called in botany Flevillea.
CACHALOT, noun A cetaceous fish, the physeter or spermaceti whale. The principal species are, the black headed with a dorsal fin, and the round-headed with a dorsal fin, and the...
CACHECTIC,CACHECTICAL, adjective [See Cachexy.] Having an ill habit of body; of a deranged or vitiated state of the body without fever.
CACHECTICAL, a. [See Cachery.] Having an ill habit of body; of a deranged or vitiated state of the body without fever.
CACHEXY, noun A vicious state of the powers of the body; a deranged state of the constitution, without fever or nervous disease.
CACHINNATION, noun A variety of chalcedony, which is a subspecies of quartz, usually milk white, some times grayish or yellowish white; opake or slightly translucent at the edge...
CACK, verb intransitive To ease the body by stool.
CACKEREL, noun A fish which is said to void excrements when pursued. Others say, a fish which eaten produces lax bowels.
CACKLE, verb intransitive1. To make a particular noise, as a goose or a hen.2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling o a goose; to giggle, which is a word from the sam...
CACKLER, noun1. A fowl that cackles.2. A tell-tale; a tattler.
CACKLING, participle present tense Making the noise of a goose or hen.CACKLING, noun The broken noise of a goose or hen. Rome was saved by the cackling of a goose.
CACOCHYMIC,CACOCHYMICAL, adjective [See Cacochymy.] Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.