Cabal

1. n. The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
2. n. Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
3. n. A secret.
4. n. A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.