Part 127

We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey.

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

Ca"ve*a`ting (?), n. (Fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

Ca"ve*a`tor (?), n. One who enters a caveat.

Cav"en*dish (?), n. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

Cav"ern (?), n. [L. caverna, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. caverne.] A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Cav"erned (?), a. 1. Containing caverns.

The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron.

2. Living in a cavern. "Caverned hermit." Pope.

Cav"ern*ous (?), a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.] 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

2. Filled with small cavities or cells.

3. Having a sound caused by a cavity.

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.

Ca*ver"nu*lous (?), a.[L. cavernula, dim. of caverna cavern.] Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

{ Cav"es*son (?), Cav"e*zon (?), } n. [F. cavešon, 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.

||Ca*vet"to (k&adot;*v&ebreve;t"t&osl;), n. [It. cavetto, fr. cavo hollow, L. cavus.] (Arch.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.

{ Ca*viare" (?), Cav"i*ar (?), } n. [F. caviar, fr. It. caviale, fr. Turk. Havīār.] The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

&fist; Caviare was considered a delicacy, by some, in Shakespeare's time, but was not relished by most. Hence Hamlet says of a certain play. "'T was caviare to the general," i. e., above the taste of the common people.

Cav"i*corn (kăv"&ibreve;*k˘rn), a. [L. cavus hollow + cornu horn.] (Zo÷l.) Having hollow horns.

||Cav`i*cor"ni*a (kăv`&ibreve;*k˘r"n&ibreve;*&adot;), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo÷l.) A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

Cav"il (kăv"&ibreve;l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caviled or Cavilled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Caviling or Cavilling.] [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.

Cav"il, v. t. To cavil at. [Obs.] Milton.

Cav"il, n. A captious or frivolous objection.

All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief. Shak.

{ Cav"il*er or Cav"il*ler (- &etilde;r), } n. One who cavils.

Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.