ppl. a. Her. Also cabazed, cabaged. [f. prec.; or ad. F. caboché in same sense.] Borne (as the head of a stag, bull or other beast) full-faced, and cut off close behind the ears so as to show no part of the neck; trunked.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 59. An hartes heade cabazed d’Or.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xiv. (1660), 162. These horned beasts … have also their heads borne Trunked: Which of some Armorists is blazoned Cabossed.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Caboched, caboshed or cabossed.
1761. Brit. Mag., II. 76. Three harts heads, caboshed, argent.
1797. Churchw. Act. St. Mary Hill, Lond. (Nicholls), 95, note. A bull’s head cabost.
1866. Peacock, Eng. Ch. Furniture, 36. A chevron between three bucks’ heads cabossed argent.
