cabbage

cabbage
    n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: {cabbage}, {chou}]
    2: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage},
       {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale}, {lettuce},
       {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf}, {scratch},
       {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {wampum}]
    3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown
       for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: {cabbage},
       {cultivated cabbage}, {Brassica oleracea}]
    v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer},
         {cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf},
         {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
    

Cabbage \Cab"bage\ (k[a^]b"b[asl]j), n. [OE. cabage, fr. F.
   cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage,
   cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl,
   hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa
   cape. See {Chief}, {Cape}.] (Bot.)
   1. 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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   2. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like,
      cabbage, for food. See {Cabbage tree}, below.
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   3. The cabbage palmetto. See below.
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   {Cabbage aphis} (Zool.), a green plant-louse ({Aphis
      brassic[ae]}) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
      

   {Cabbage beetle} (Zool.), a small, striped flea-beetle
      ({Phyllotreta vittata}) which lives, in the larval state,
      on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage
      and other cruciferous plants.

   {Cabbage fly} (Zool.), a small two-winged fly ({Anthomyia
      brassic[ae]}), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state,
      on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to
      the crop.

   {Cabbage head}, the compact head formed by the leaves of a
      cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and
      colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull.
      

   {Cabbage palmetto}, a species of palm tree ({Sabal Palmetto})
      found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.

   {Cabbage rose} (Bot.), a species of rose ({Rosa centifolia})
      having large and heavy blossoms.

   {Cabbage tree}, {Cabbage palm}, a name given to palms having
      a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the {Sabal Palmetto}
      of the United States, and the {Euterpe oleracea} and
      {Oreodoxa oleracea} of the West Indies.

   {Sea cabbage}.(Bot.)
      (a) Sea kale
      (b) . The original Plant ({Brassica oleracea}), from which
          the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc., have been
          derived by cultivation.

   {Thousand-headed cabbage}. See {Brussels sprouts}.
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Cabbage \Cab"bage\, v. i.
   To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce
   cabbage. --Johnson.
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Cabbage \Cab"bage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cabbaged} (-b[asl]jd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Cabbaging} (-b[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F.cabasser,
   fr. OF. cabas theft; cf. F. cabas basket, and OF. cabuser to
   cheat.]
   To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining
   after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
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         Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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Cabbage \Cab"bage\, n.
   Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out
   garments.
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CABBAGE, n.  A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and
wise as a man's head.
    The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending
the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire
consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the
cabbages in the royal garden.  When any of his Majesty's measures of
state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that
several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his
murmuring subjects were appeased.
    

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "cabbage":
      Irish potato, Kraut, aubergine, beans, blunt, boodle, brass, bread,
      bucks, chips, dinero, dough, eggplant, gelt, gilt, grease, green,
      green stuff, greens, jack, kale, legumes, love apple, mad apple,
      mazuma, moolah, mopus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish,
      pieplant, potato, potherbs, produce, rhino, rhubarb, rocks,
      shekels, simoleons, spondulics, spud, sugar, tater, the needful,
      tin, tomato, vegetables, wampum, white potato