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Cave   /keɪv/   Listen
noun
Cave  n.  
1.
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
2.
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. (Obs.) "The cave of the ear."
3.
(Eng. Politics) A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866.
Cave bear (Zool.), a very large fossil bear (Ursus spelaeus) similar to the grizzly bear, but large; common in European caves.
Cave dweller, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave.
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.


verb
Cave  v. t.  (past & past part. caved; pres. part. caving)  To make hollow; to scoop out. (Obs.) "The mouldred earth cav'd the banke."


Cave  v. i.  
1.
To dwell in a cave. (Obs.)
2.
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.
To cave in.
(a)
To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit.
(b)
To submit; to yield. (Slang)





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"Cave" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a curious book, which can still be met with sometimes on the quays. It is adorned by a lithograph of Henry Monnier's, which is, I don't know why, a caricature of Stendhal. Fongeray is the pseudonym of two Liberals of the Restoration, Dittmer and Cave. The work consists of comedies and dramas which cannot be acted; but which contain some most interesting scenes representing manners and customs. You will read in it how, in the reign of Charles X, a vicar of one of the Paris churches, the Abbe Mouchaud, would ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... led them off toward the river. Two dashing young fellows carried the seat-cushions under the rocky canopy and constructed an elaborate couch for the "Princess." The chief, with his own hands, soon began the construction of a small chamber in this particular corner of the cave, near the opening. The walls of the chamber were formed of carriage robes and ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... relates to the famous cave known through the middle ages as the "Purgatory of Saint Patrick", as well as the Story of Luis Enius — the Owain Miles of Ancient English poetry — Calderon was entirely indebted to the little volume published at Madrid, in 1627, by Juan Perez de Montalvan, entitled "Vida y Purgatorio ...
— The Purgatory of St. Patrick • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... not dream of a lurking foe so near him. The tarantula was, no doubt, in high spirits at the moment, exulting at the prospect of the banquet of blood he should have, when he had carried the ruby-throat to his dark, silken cave. But he was destined never to reach that cave. When he had got within a few inches of its entrance, the chameleon sprang out from the limb, seized the spider in his wide jaws, and all three—lizard, spider, and bird—came to the ground together. ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... said Tommie. "But I guess the far end is best—over by the Cave of the Winds," he finished, pointing his boat toward the rocky arch on the far side ...
— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis


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