Part 1518

<h1>C</h1> <Xpage=199>

<hw>C</hw>. <tt>(<?/)</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of <i>k</i>, and <i>g</i> (in <i>go</i>); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of <i>k</i>. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek <GAMMA/, &gamma;, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greek <i>got</i> it from the Phoenicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name <i>ce</i>, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is related to <i>g</i>, <i>h</i>, <i>k</i>, <i>q</i>, <i>s</i> (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. a<i>c</i>utus, E. a<i>c</i>ute, a<i>g</i>ue; E. a<i>c</i>rid, ea<i>g</i>ar; L. <i>c</i>ornu, E. <i>h</i>orn; E. <i>c</i>at, <i>k</i>itten; E. <i>c</i>oy, <i>q</i>uiet; L. <i>c</i>ir<i>c</i>are, OF. <i>c</i>er<i>ch</i>ier, E. <i>s</i>ear<i>ch</i>.</def>

<note>See <i>Guide to Pronunciation</i>, \'c5\'c5 221-228.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>(a) The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same <sd>(b)</sd> C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for <i>alla breve</i> time it is written <?/ <sd>(c)</sd> The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, abows that line to be middle C.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>As a numeral, C stands for Latin <ets>centum</ets> or 100, CC for 200, etc.</def>

<cs><col>C spring</col>, <cd>a spring in the form of the letter C.</cd></cs>

<h1>Caaba</h1> <Xpage=199>

<hw>Ca*a"ba</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ar. <ets>ka'ban</ets>, let, a square building, fr. <ets>ka'b</ets> cube]</ety> <def>The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>kaaba</asp>.]</altsp>

<note>&hand; The <i>Caaba</i> is situated in Mecca, a city of Arabia, and contains a famous black stone said to have been brought from heaven. Before the time of Mohammed, the <i>Caaba</i> was an idolatrous temple, but it has since been the chief sanctuary and object of pilgrimage of the Mohammedan world.</note>

<h1>Caas</h1> <Xpage=199>

<hw>Caas</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. sing. & pl.</tt> <def>Case.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Chaucer</i>.

<h1>Cab</h1> <Xpage=199>

<hw>Cab</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Abbrev. fr. <ets>cabriolet</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.</def> "A <i>cab</i> came clattering up."

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<note>&hand; A <i>cab</i> may have two seats at right to the driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or front.</note>

<cs><col>Hansom cab</col>. <cd>See <er>Hansom</er>.</cd></cs>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Cab</h1> <Xpage=199>

<hw>Cab</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Heb. <ets>gab</ets>, fr. <ets>q\'bebab</ets> to hollow.]</ety> <def>A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.</def>

<i>W. H. Ward. 2 Kings vi. 25.</i>

<h1>Cabal</h1> <Xpage=199>

<hw>Ca*bal"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cabale</ets> cabal, cabala LL. <ets>cabala</ets> cabala, fr. Heb. <ets>qabb\'bel\'c7h</ets> reception, tradition, mysterious doctrine, fr. <ets>q\'bebal</ets> to take or receive, in Pi\'89l qibbel to abopt (a doctrine).]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Tradition; occult doctrine. See <er>Cabala</er></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hakewill.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A secret.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "The measuring of the temple, a <i>cabal</i> found out but lately."

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.</def>

<note>It so happend, by a whimsical coincidence, that in 1671 the cabinet consisted of five persons, the initial letters of whose names made up the word <i>cabal<i>; Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale.</note>