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8970

 cave
[.] CAVE, n. A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den. This may be natural or artificial. The primitive inhabitants of the earth, in many countries, lived in caves; and the present inhabitants of some parts of the earth, especially in the high northern ...

8971

 caveat
[.] CAVEAT, n. [.] 1. In law, a process in a court, especially in a spiritual court, to stop proceedings, as to stop the proving of a will; also to prevent the institution of a clerk to a benefice. [.] In America, it is used in courts of common law. [.] 2. Intimation ...

8972

 caveating
[.] CAVEATING, n. In fencing, is the shifting the sword from one side of that of your adversary to the other.

8973

 caveator
[.] CAVEATOR, n. One who enters a caveat.

8974

 cavern
[.] CAVERN, n. A deep hollow place in the earth. In general, it differs from cave in greater depth, and in being applied most usually to natural hollows, or chasms. [.] Earth with its caverns dark and deep.

8975

 caverned
[.] CAVERNED, a. [.] 1. Full of caverns, or deep chasms; having caverns. [.] 2. Inhabiting a cavern.

8976

 cavernous
[.] CAVERNOUS, a. Hollow; full of caverns.

8977

 cavernulous
[.] CAVERNULOUS, a. Full of little cavities; as cavernulous metal.

8978

 cavesson
[.] CAVESSON, n. A sort of nose-band, of iron, leather or wood, sometimes flat, and sometimes hollow or twisted, which is put on the nose of a horse to wring it, and thus to forward the suppling and breaking of him.

8979

 cavetto
[.] CAVETTO, n. In architecture, a hollow member, or round concave molding, containing the quadrant of a circle; used as an ornament in cornices.

8980

 cavezon
[.] CAVEZON,

11533

 concave
[.] CONCAVE, a. [L. Hollow. See Cave.] [.] 1. Hollow, and arched or rounded, as the inner surface of a spherical body; opposed to convex; as a concave glass. [.] 2. Hollow, in a general sense; as the concave shores of the Tiber. [.] 3. In botany, a concave leaf is ...

11534

 concaveness
[.] CONCAVENESS, n. Hollowness.

11536

 concavo-concave
[.] CONCAVO-CONCAVE, a. Concave or hollow on both surfaces.

12557

 convexo-concave
[.] CONVEXO-CONCAVE, a. Convex on one side and concave on the other; having the hollow on the inside corresponding to the convex surface.

19065

 encave
[.] ENCA'VE, v.t. [from cave.] To hide in a cave or recess.

48259

 scavenger
[.] SCAV'ENGER, n. [L. scabio.] [.] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping and carrying off the filth.

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