The advisory board or coun-cil of a king or other chief executive. In the government of the United States the cabinet is composed of the secretary of state, the sec-cretary of the treasury, the secretary of the Interior, the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy, the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of commerce and labor, the attor-ney general, and the postmaster general
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
