Part 94

An angel carved in stone. Tennyson.

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. C. Wolfe.

4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak.

5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

My good blade carved the casques of men. Tennyson.

A million wrinkles carved his skin. Tennyson.

6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. Shak.

To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak.

Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

Carve, v. i. 1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

Carve, n. A carucate. [Obs.] Burrill.

Car"vel (?), n. [Contr. fr. caravel.] 1. Same as Caravel.

2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

Car"vel*built (?), a. (Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

Car"ven (?), a. Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic]

A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall.

The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson.

A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

Car"vene (?), n. [F. carvi caraway.] An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

Carv"er (?), n. 1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley.

The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

2. One who carves or divides meat at table.

3. A large knife for carving.

Carv"ing, n. 1. The act or art of one who carves.