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A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

The capybara. See Capybara.

A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. E. Everett.

A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.

,n.One of the Cabiri.

ns of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

Same as Cabiric.

Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship. [Written also Cabiritic.]

e, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting, or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.

A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

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 are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

The driver of a cab.

To roast, as a cabob. Sir. T. Herbert.