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A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. W. H. Ward. 2 Kings vi. 25.

ations of a few persons united in a close design; in intrigue. By cursed cabals of women. Dryden. Syn. - Junto; intrigue; plot; combination; conspiracy. -- Cabal, Combination, Faction. An association for some purpose considered to be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individ…

One who cabals. A close caballer and tongue-valiant lord. Dryden.

en noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. By her cackle saved the state. Dryden.

high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid…

A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdike fruit, containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The Afric…

ng ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.

d. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

r still or quet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. To calm the tempest raised by Eolus. Dryden.

A gum resembing ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.

m in the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

es all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden.

b (Aleurites triloba), a native of some of the Pacific islands; -- socalled because, when dry, it will burn with a bright flame, and is used by the natives as a candle. The oil has many uses. -- Candle power (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.…

The light of a candle. Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden.

] Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden.

f diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Shak.

or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

ities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. Goldsmith. The cant of any profession. Dryden.

gue; a canting tone. - Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.

A piece; a fragment; a corner. Dryden.