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cabbage
n. type of leafy vegetable
 
v. pilfer, take someone else's things (Rare usage)


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Cabbage
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery is sometimes pronounced 'Cabbage(s)'. A cabbage (Brassica oleracea Capitata Group) is a plant of the Family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae). It is herbaceousbiennial, and a dicotyledonous flowering plant with leaves forming a characteristic compact cluster. Cabbages grown late in autumn and in the beginning of winter are denominated coleworts.
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cabbage
Noun
1. any of various types of cabbage
(synonym) chou
(hypernym) cruciferous vegetable
(hyponym) kale, kail, cole
(part-holonym) cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea
2. informal terms for money
(synonym) boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
(hypernym) money
(derivation) pilfer, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
3. any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
(synonym) cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea
(hypernym) crucifer, cruciferous plant
(hyponym) head cabbage, head cabbage plant, Brassica oleracea capitata
(member-holonym) Brassica, genus Brassica
(part-meronym) chou
Verb
1. make off with belongings of others
(synonym) pilfer, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
(hypernym) steal
(derivation) boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Cabbage
(v. i.)
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
  
 
(v. i.)
To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
  
 
(n.)
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
  
 
(n.)
The cabbage palmetto. See below.
  
 
(n.)
Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
  
 
(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.
  

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Cabbage
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.
  

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see: Guttenberg Project

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