Cabbage
[ˈkæbɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various types of cabbage.
(noun.) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers.
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Definition
(n.) An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
(n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
(n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below.
(v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
(v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
(n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [Colloquial.] Steal, purloin, filch, pilfer, make off with.
n. [1]. Plant of the genus Brassica.[2]. [Cant term.] Shreds of cloth, tailors' remnants.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rob, steal, filch, crib, pocket, shirk, pillage, abstract, purloin
ANT:[See PURLOIN]
Typed by Levi
Definition
v.t. and v.i. to purloin esp. a tailor of portions of a customer's cloth.—n. cloth so appropriated.
Checker: Merle
Unserious Contents or Definition
It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms. To dream of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love and infidelity in wedlock. To cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords of calamity around you by lavish expenditure.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Typist: Norton
Examples
- Summer cabbage? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The same varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She can't teach her mischief; she might teach it to some children, but evil rolls off Eva's mind like dew off a cabbage-leaf,--not a drop sinks in. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The waiter brought a dish of sauerkraut with a slice of ham over the top and a sausage buried in the hot wine-soaked cabbage. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I really don't know but what I WILL take summer cabbage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It grows like a cabbage. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He soon returned, bearing the same in a fresh cabbage-leaf, where it coyly embraced a rasher of ham. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And cabbage produced. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It has been probably in this manner that the introduction of clover, turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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