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Cabinet   /kˈæbənət/  /kˈæbnət/   Listen
noun
Cabinet  n.  
1.
A hut; a cottage; a small house. (Obs.) "Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet."
2.
A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
3.
A private room in which consultations are held. "Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet."
4.
The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. Note: In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster-general, and the Attorney-general.
5.
(a)
A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:
(b)
A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See etagere.
6.
Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.
Cabinet council.
(a)
Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title).
(b)
A meeting of the cabinet.
Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council.
Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite.
Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.


verb
Cabinet  v. i.  (past & past part. cabineted; pres. part. cabineting)  To inclose (R.)


adjective
Cabinet  adj.  Suitable for a cabinet; small. "He (Varnhagen von Ense) is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe."





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"Cabinet" Quotes from Famous Books



... friends of the measure. But when Mr. Fox and Lord Granville took office in 1806, the abolition was brought forward by the ministers, most of whom supported it, though it was not made a government question in consequence of several members of the cabinet opposing it. The attorney-general (Sir A. Pigott) brought in a bill, which was passed into a law, prohibiting the slave trade in the conquered colonies, and excluding British subjects from engaging in the foreign slave trade; and Mr. Fox at Mr. Wilberforce's ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various
... from a cabinet?" he asked. Just as he spoke that question, an electric bell rang somewhere to the rear of the drawing-room. Mrs. Markham sat unmoving for an instant, as though considering either the sound or his question. The bell tinkled no more. After a moment, ...
— The House of Mystery • William Henry Irwin
... she is a fascinating woman. I was only thinking, as to this appropriation, now, what such a woman could do in Washington. All correct, too, all correct. Common thing, I assure you in Washington; the wives of senators, representatives, cabinet officers, all sorts of wives, and some who are not wives, use their influence. You want an appointment? Do you go to Senator X? Not much. You get on the right side of his wife. Is it an appropriation? You'd go 'straight to ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... everybody. Says he has met the scholar in politics before. Do you remember how he took care of that kid-gloved aggregation which tried to run him out of business a year or so ago? He dumped this distinguished kicker into the cabinet, had another made a plenipotentiary, foisted off number three into some windy commission on the other side of the planet, and so on down the list. They said it seemed to be in the air that ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... are exceedingly common, and I might fill a large number of pages with figures and descriptions of the variety which the ingenuity of the cabinet-makers of the fifteenth century managed to impart to combinations of a screw and two or more tables. I will content myself with one more example (fig. 144) which shews the screw exceedingly well, and the ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark


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