Part 1726

<hw>Ca"ve*a`ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Fencing)</fld> <def>Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.</def>

<h1>Caveator</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Ca"ve*a`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who enters a caveat.</def>

<h1>Cavendish</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav"en*dish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.</def>

<cs><col>Cut cavendish</col>, <cd>the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cavern</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav"ern</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>caverna</ets>, fr. <ets>cavus</ets> hollow: cf. F. <ets>caverne</ets>.]</ety> <def>A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.</def>

<h1>Caverned</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav"erned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Containing caverns.</def>

<blockquote>The wolves yelled on the <b>caverned</b> hill. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Living in a cavern.</def> "<i>Caverned</i> hermit."

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Cavernous</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav"ern*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cavernosus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>caverneux</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Filled with small cavities or cells.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Having a sound caused by a cavity.</def>

<cs><col>Cavernous body</col>, <cd>a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris.</cd> -- <col>Cavernous respiration</col>, <cd>a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cavernulous</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Ca*ver"nu*lous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt><ety>[L. <ets>cavernula</ets>, dim. of <ets>caverna</ets> cavern.]</ety> <def>Full of little cavities; <as>as, <ex>cavernulous</ex> metal</as>.</def>

<i>Black.</i>

<h1>Cavesson, Cavezon</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw><hw>Cav"es*son</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Cav"e*zon</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cave\'87on</ets>, augm. fr. LL. <ets>capitium</ets> a head covering hood, fr. L. <ets>caput</ets> head. Cf. <er>Caberzon</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Man.)</fld> <def>A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>caveson</asp>, <asp>causson</asp>.]</altsp>

<i>White.</i>

<h1>Cavetto</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Ca*vet"to</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>cavetto</ets>, fr. <ets>cavo</ets> hollow, L. <ets>cavus</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Calumn</er>.</def>

<h1>Caviare, Caviar</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw><hw>Ca*viare"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Cav"i*ar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>caviar</ets>, fr. It. <ets>caviale</ets>, fr. Turk. <ets>Hav\'c6\'ber</ets>.]</ety> <def>The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.</def>