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CABLE, n. cabl. A large strong rope or chain, used to retain a vessel at anchor....
CABLE-TIER, n. The place where the cables are coiled away.
CABLED, a. Fastened with a cable.
CABLET, n. A little cable.
CABOCHED, CABOOSE, n. 1. The cook-room or kitchen of a ship. In smaller vessels,...
CABOS, n. A species of eel-pout, about two feet long, whose flesh is well tasted.
CABOSHED, n. In heraldry, having the head cut close, so as to have no neck left.
CABRIOLE, CABRIOLET, n. A gig; a one horse chair, a light carriage.
CABURE, n. A Brazilian bird of the owl kind, of the size of a thrush, of a beaut...
CABURNS, n. Small lines made of spun yarn, to bind cables, seize tackles, and th...
CACAO or COCOA , n. The chocolate-tree, a species of the Theobroma, a native of ...
CACCOONS, n. A plant called in botany Flevillea.
CACHALOT, n. A cetaceous fish, the physeter or spermaceti whale. The principal s...
CACHECTIC, CACHECTICAL, a. [See Cachexy .] Having an ill habit of body; of a der...
CACHEXY, n. A vicious state of the powers of the body; a deranged state of the c...
CACHINNATION, n. A variety of chalcedony, which is a subspecies of quartz, usual...