ance, where he
returned to defend himself successfully before the tribunals, he remained,
the dictator of his little society. In 1856, however, he withdrew and died
the same year at St Louis.

See COMMUNISM. Also Felix Bonnaud, _Cabet et son oeuvre, appel a tous les
socialistes_ (Paris, 1900); J. Prudhommeaux, _Icaria and its Founder,
Etienne Cabet_ (Nimes, 1907).

CABIN, a small, roughly built hut or shelter; the term is particularly
applied to the thatched mud cottages of the negro slaves of the southern
states of the Unites States of America, or of the poverty-stricken
peasantry of Ireland or the crofter districts of Scotland. In a special
sense it is used of the small rooms or compartments on board a vessel used
for sleeping, eating or other accommodation. The word in its earlier
English forms was _cabane_ or _caban_, and thus seems to be an adaptation
of the French _cabane_; the French have taken _cabine_, for the room on
board a ship, from the English. In French and other Romanic languages, in
which the word occurs, _e.g._ Spanish _cabana_, Portuguese _cabana_, the
origin is usually found in the Medieval Latin _capanna_. Isidore of Seville
(_Origines_, lib. xiv. 12) says:--_Tugurium_ (hut) _parva casula est, quam
faciunt sibi custodes vinearum, ad tegimen seu quasi tegurium. Hoc rustici
Capannam vocant, quod unum tantum capiat_ (see Du Cange, _Glossarium_, s.v.
_Capanna_). Others derive from Greek [Greek: kape], crib, manger. Skeat
considers the English word was taken from the Welsh _caban_, rather than
from the French, and that the original source for all the forms was Celtic.

CABINET, a word with various applications which may be traced to two
principal meanings, (1) a small private chamber, and (2) an article of
furniture containing compartments formed of drawers, shelves, &c. The word
is a diminutive of "cabin" and therefore properly means a small hut or
shelter. This meaning is now obsolete; the _New English Dictionary_ quotes
from Leonard Digges's _Stratioticos_ (published with additions by his son
Thomas in 1579), "the Lance Knights encamp always in the field very
strongly, two or three to a Cabbonet." From the use both of the article of
furniture and of a small chamber for the safe-keeping of a collection of
valuable prints, pictures, medals or other objects, the word is frequently
applied to such a collection or to objects fit for such safe-keeping. The
name of _Cabinet du Roi_ was given to the collecti