Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cabled

Ca″bled (–b'ld), a. 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. “The cabled stone.” Dyer.2. (Arch.) Adorned with cabling.

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Cablegram

Ca″ble‐gram′ (kā″b'l‐grăm′), n. [Cable, n. + Gr. γράμμα a writing, a letter.] A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

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Cablelaid

Ca″ble‐laid′ (–lād′), a. 1. (Naut.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid...

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Cablet

Ca″blet (?), n. [Dim. of cable; cf. F. câblot.] A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

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Cabling

Ca″bling (?), n.(Arch.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These...

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Cabman

Cab″man (?), n.; pl.Cabmen (�). The driver of a cab.

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Cabob

Ca‐bob″ (?), n. [Hindi kabāb] 1. A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; — so called in Turkey and Persia.2. A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herri...

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Cabob (2)

Ca‐bob″, v. t. To roast, as a cabob. Sir. T. Herbert.

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Caboched

Ca‐boched″ (?), a. [F. caboche head. Cf. 1st Cabbage.] (Her.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; — said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. [Written also ca...

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Cabochon

‖Ca′bo′chon″ (kȧ′bō̍′shôN″), n.(Jewelry) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon.

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Caboodle

Ca‐boo″dle (kȧ‐bo͞o″d'l), n. The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; — usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. Bartlett.

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Caboose

Ca‐boose″ (kȧ‐bo͞os″), n. [Cf. D. kabuis, kombuis, Dan. kabys, Sw. kabysa, G. kabuse a little room or hut. The First part of the word seems to be allied to W. cab cabin, booth. ...

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Cabotage

Cab″o‐tage (?), n. [F. cabotage, fr. caboter to sail along the coast; cf. Sp. cabo cape.] (Naut.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

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Cabrée

‖Ca‐brée″ (kȧ‐brā̍″), n.(Zoöl.) The pronghorn antelope. [Also written cabrit, cabret.]

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Cabrerite

Ca‐brer″ite (?), n.(Min.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; — so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.

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Cabrilla

‖Ca‐bril″la (?), n.(Zoöl) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, et...

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Cabriole

Cab″ri‐ole (?), n. [F. See Cabriolet, and cf. Capriole.] (Man.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.The cabrioles which his charger exhibited.Sir W. Scott.

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Cabriolet

Cab′ri‐o‐let″ (?), n. [F., dim. of cabriole a leap, caper, from It. capriola, fr. dim. of L. caper he-goat, capra she-goat. This carriage is so called from its skipping lightnes...

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Cabrit

Ca‐brit″ (?), n. Same as Cabrée.

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Caburn

Cab″urn (?), n. [Cf. Cable, n.] (Naut.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

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Cacæmia

{‖Ca‐cæ″mi‐a (kȧ‐sē″mĭ‐ȧ), ‖Ca‐chæ″mi‐a (kȧ‐kē̍″mĭ‐ȧ),} n. [NL., fr. Gr. κακόσ bad+ αἱ̑μα blood.] (Med.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

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Cacaine

Ca‐ca″ine (?), n.(Chem.) The essential principle of cacao; — now called theobromine.

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Cacajão

‖Ca‐ca‐jão″ (?), n.(Zoöl) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia melanocephala or Brachyurus melanocephala). [Written also cacajo.]

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Cacao

Ca‐ca″o (?), n. [Sp., fr. Mex. kakahuatl. Cf. Cocoa, Chocolate] (Bot.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edibl...

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Cachæmia (2)

‖Ca‐chæ″mi‐a, ‖Ca‐che″mi‐a (�), n.(Med.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. — Ca‐chæ″mic, Ca‐che″mic (#), a.

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Cachalot

Cach″a‐lot (?), n. [F. cachalot.] (Zoöl.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, c...

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Cache

‖Cache (?), n. [F., a hiding place, fr. cacher to conceal, to hide.] A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to ...