Part 4

||Ca"ber (kā"b&etilde;r), n. A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

Cab`e*zon" (kăb`&asl;*z&obreve;n" or kń*b&asl;*th&osl;n"), n. [Sp., properly, big head. Cf. Cavesson.] (Zo÷l.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

Cab"i*ai (kăb"&ibreve;*ī), n. [Native South American name.] (Zo÷l.) The capybara. See Capybara.

Cab"in (kăb"&ibreve;n), n. [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.] 1. A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift.

A hunting cabin in the west. E. Everett.

2. A small room; an inclosed place.

So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive. Spenser.

3. A room in ship for officers or passengers.

Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

Cab"in v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabined (-&ibreve;nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabining.] To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave. Shak.

Cab"in, v. t. To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Shak.

Cab"i*net (kăb"&ibreve;*n&ebreve;t), n. [F., dim. of cabine or cabane. See Cabin, n.] 1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.]

Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

2. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.

3. A private room in which consultations are held.

Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott.

4. The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

&fist; In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. Mozley & W. -- In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster-general, and the Attorney-general.

5. (a) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: (b) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an ÚtagŔre or closed with doors. See ╔tagŔre.

6. Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.

Cabinet council. (a) Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title). (b) A meeting of the cabinet. -- Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council. -- Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite. -- Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.

Cab"i*net, a. Suitable for a cabinet; small.

He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev.

Cab"i*net, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabineted; p. pr. & vb. n. Cabineting.] To inclose [R.] Hewyt.

Cab"i*net*mak`er (-māk`&etilde;r), n. One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

Cab"i*net*mak`ing, n. The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.