CABINETS
Noun
cabinets
plural of cabinet
Anagrams
• bacinets, bascinet, bisecant
Source: Wiktionary
CABINET
Cab"i*net, n. Etym: [F., dim. of cabine or cabane. See Cabin, n.]
1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.]
Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful
Colinet. Spenser.
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. Prescott.
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 coucilors who actually transact the immediate business of the
government. Mozley & W.
– 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.
Cab"i*net, a.
Definition: Suitable for a cabinet; small.
He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For.
Quar. Rev.
Cab"i*net, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabineted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cabineting.]
Definition: To inclose [R.] Hewyt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition