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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Cabbage

Cāb'baġe, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. cabbish, cabes, Fr. cabus, headed (of cabbages); choux cabus, headed cabbage, cabbage-head, O. Fr. laictue cabuce ou pommée, lactuca capitata, from Lat. capitatus, having a head, from caput, capitis, head. Cf. It. cappuccio, a little head, cappuccio, cowl, hood, cabbage, from capo, head, D. kabuis-kool, head cole, or headed cole.]

  1. A genus of plants of different varieties of the species Brassica oleracea, common as a garden vegetable.
  2. Cloth purloined by one who cuts out garments.

Sea-cabbage, the sea-beach kale, or sea-colewort, a genus of plants called Crambe. They are herbaceous esculents, with perennial roots, producing large leaves, like those of cabbage, spreading on the ground.

Căb'bāge, v. i.

verbintransitive

To form a head in growing; as, a plant cabbages. Johnson.

Cāb'bage, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CABBAGED; p. pr. & vb. n. CABBAGING.] [From the noun; properly and originally, to cut off the heads of cabbages, and occasionally also such as are not our own, but belong to others; hence, O. Fr. cabaser, to cheat, D. kabassen, to purloin.] To purloin or embezzle, as pieces of cloth, after cutting out a garment.

Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.