cabbage

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several forms of a vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) of the mustard family, having a globose head consisting of a short stem and tightly overlapping green to purplish leaves.
• noun Any of several similar or related plants, such as Chinese cabbage.
• noun The terminal bud of several species of palm, eaten as a vegetable.
• noun Slang Money, especially in the form of bills.
• noun Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To form a head like that of a cabbage in growing: as, a plant cabbages.
• noun A variety of Brassica oleracea in which the thick, rounded, and strongly veined leaves are crowded in a large compact head upon a short, stout stem. See Brassica.
• noun The large terminal bud of some kinds of palms, as the cabbage-palm.
• To grow to a head: said of the horns of a deer.
• noun The part of a deer's head wherein the horns are set.
• noun A part of a head-dress worn by women in the eighteenth century, described as a roll at the back of the head.
• noun See gall-weevil, etc.
• noun Anything filched; specifically, cloth purloined by a tailor who makes garments from material supplied by his customers.
• To crib or appropriate dishonestly; use surreptitiously; cab.
• noun A cab or crib, used surreptitiously by a school-boy in preparing his lessons or writing his exercises.
• To purloin; specifically, to keep possession of part of a customer's cloth from which a garment has been made.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To form a head like that the cabbage.
• intransitive verb To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
• noun Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
• noun (Bot.) 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.
• noun The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
• noun The cabbage palmetto. See below.
• noun (Zoöl.) a green plant-louse (Aphis brassicæ) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
• noun (Zoöl.) 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.
• noun (Zoöl.) a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia brassicæ), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop.
• noun the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull.
• noun a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.
• noun (Bot.) a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms.
• noun 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.
• noun (Bot.) The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation.
• noun See Brussels sprouts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
• noun uncountable The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
• noun countable, offensive A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
• noun Used as a term of endearment.
• noun uncountable, slang Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
• noun uncountable, slang Money
• noun uncountable, slang Marijuana leaf, the part you don't smoke but have to first extract into cannabutter and bake into spacecake to get high off.
• verb intransitive To form a head like that of the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
• verb intransitive To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
• noun any of various types of cabbage
• noun informal terms for money
• verb make off with belongings of others