a. [ Pref. bi- + concave. ] Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [ Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A sweet wine. See Calcavella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cave, L. cavus hollow, whence cavea cavity. Cf. Cage. ] 1. A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. [ Obs. ] “The cave of the ear.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Politics) A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Cave bear (Zool.), a very large fossil bear (Ursus spelæus) similar to the grizzly bear, but large; common in European caves. --
Cave dweller, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave. Tylor. --
Cave hyena (Zool.), a fossil hyena found abundanty in British caves, now usually regarded as a large variety of the living African spotted hyena. --
Cave lion (Zool.), a fossil lion found in the caves of Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African lion. --
Bone cave. See under Bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Caved p. pr. & vb. n. Caving. ] [ Cf. F. caver. See Cave, n. ] To make hollow; to scoop out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To dwell in a cave. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ See To cave in, below. ] To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cave in. [ Flem. inkalven. ] (a) To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [ Slang ] H. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (U. S. Patent Laws) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest. [ 1913 Webster ]

We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caveat emptor [ L. ] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters a caveat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caverna, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. caverne. ] A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Containing caverns. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Living in a cavern. “Caverned hermit.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux. ] 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Filled with small cavities or cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having a sound caused by a cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cavernous body, a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. --
Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cavernula, dim. of caverna cavern. ] Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. cavetto, fr. cavo hollow, L. cavus. ] (Arch.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. caveçon, augm. fr. LL. capitium a head covering hood, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Caberzon. ] (Man.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [ Written also caveson, causson. ] White. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. concaved p. pr. & vb. n. Concaving. ] To make hollow or concave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. concavus; con- + cavus hollow: cf. F. concave. See Cave a hollow. ] 1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hollow; void of contents. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As concave . . . as a worm-eaten nut. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concavum. ] 1. A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hollowness; concavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + cave: cf. F. encaver. Cf. Incavated. ] To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. “Do but encave yourself.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. excavare. ] To excavate. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- in + cave. Cf. Encave, Incavated. ] Inclosed in a cave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the cavernous sinuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Plano- + concave. ] Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to salvage (usable items or material) from discarded or waste material. [ PJC ]

3. To remove (burned gases) from the cylinder after a working stroke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. (Internal-combustion Engines) To remove the burned gases from the cylinder after a working stroke; as, this engine does not scavenge well. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. scavager an officer with various duties, originally attending to scavage, fr. OE. & E. scavage. See Scavage, Show, v. ] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scavenger beetle (Zool.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. --
Scavenger crab (Zool.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. --
Scavenger's daughter [ corrupt. of Skevington's daughter ], an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from the nostrils, and sometimes from the hands and feet. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a game in which individuals or teams are given a list of items and must go out, gather them together without purchasing them, and bring them back; the first person or team to return with the complete list is the winner. The items are sometimes common but often of a humorous sort. [ PJC ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Scavenge. Hence, n. (Internal-combustion Engines) Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Slightly concave. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]