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AABA, or, properly ſignifies a ſquare building; but is particularly applied by the Mahometans to the temple of Mecca, built, as they pretend, by Abraham and Iſmael his ſon. It is towards this temple they always turn their faces when they pray, in whatever part of the world they happen to be. This temple enjoys the privilege of an aſylum for all ſorts of criminals; but it is moſt remarkable for the pilgrimages made to it by the devout muſſulmansmusulmans [sic], who pay ſo great a veneration to it, that they believe a ſingle ſight of its ſacred walls, without any particular act of devotion, is as meritorious, in the ſight of God, as the moſt careful diſcharge of one's duty, for the ſpace of a whole year, in any other temple.

 CAB, an Hebrew dry meaſure, being the ſixth part of a ſeah or ſatum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah: A cab contained 2$3⁄6$ pints of our corn meaſure: A quarter-cab was the meaſure of dove's dung, or more properly a ſort of chick-peaſe, called by this name, ſold at Samaria, during the ſiege of that city, for five ſhekels.

 CABALIST, in French commerce, a factor, or perſon, who is concerned in managing the trade of another.

 CABALLARIA, in middle-age writers, lands held by the tenure of furniſhing a horſeman, with ſuitable equipage, in time of war, or when the lord had occaſion for him.

 CABALLEROS, or, are Spaniſh wools, of which there is a pretty conſiderable tradatrade [sic] at Bayonne, in France.

 CABALLINE denotes ſomething belonging to horſes: Thus caballine aloes is ſo called, from its being chiefly uſed for purging horſes; and common brimſtone is called ſulphur caballinum, for a like reaſon.

 CABBAGE, in botany. See.

 -tree, a name ſometimes given to the palm tree, called by Linnæus, phœnix. See.

<section end="Cabbage-tree" /> <section begin="Cabbaging" />CABBAGING, among gardeners, a term uſed for the knitting of cabbages into round heads.

<section end="Cabbaging" /> <section begin="Cabbala" />CABBALA, according to the Hebrew ſtyle, has a very diſtinct ſigniſication from that wherein we underſtand it in our language. The Hebrew cabbala ſignilies tradition; and the rabbinsrabbis [sic], who are called cabbaliſts, ſtudy principally the combination of particular words, letters, and numbers, and by this means pretend to diſcover what is to come, and to ſee clearly into the ſenſe of many difficult paſſages in ſcripture: There are no ſure principles of this knowledge, but it depends upon ſome particular traditions of the ancients; for which reaſon it is termed cabbala.

The cabbaliſts have abundance of names, which they call ſacred: Theſe they make uſe of in invoking of ſpirits, and imagine that they receive great light from them: They tell us, that the ſecrets of the cabbala were diſcovered to Moſes on mount Sinai; and that theſe have been delivered down to them from father to ſon, without interruption, and without any uſe of letters; for to write them down, is what they are by no means permitted to do. This is likewiſe termed the oral law, becauſe it paſſed from father to ſon, in order to diftinguiſh it from the written laws.

There is another Cabbala, called artificial, which conſiſts in ſearching for abtruſe and myſterious ſignifications of a word in ſcripture, from whence they borrow certain explanations, by combining the letters <section end="Cabbala" /> which Rh