CPage 101
- English Word Cavally Definition A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]
- English Word Cavalry Definition That part of military force which serves on horseback.
- English Word Cavalryman Definition One of a body of cavalry.
- English Word Cavatina Definition Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
- English Word Cave Definition A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
- English Word Cave Definition Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
- English Word Cave Definition To make hollow; to scoop out.
- English Word Cave Definition To dwell in a cave.
- English Word Cave Definition 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.
- English Word Caveat Definition 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.
- English Word Caveat Definition 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.
- English Word Caveat Definition Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
- English Word Caveating Definition Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
- English Word Caveator Definition One who enters a caveat.
- English Word Caved Definition of Cave
- English Word Cavendish Definition Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
- English Word Cavern Definition A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
- English Word Caverned Definition Containing caverns.
- English Word Caverned Definition Living in a cavern.
- English Word Cavernous Definition Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
- English Word Cavernous Definition Filled with small cavities or cells.
- English Word Cavernous Definition Having a sound caused by a cavity.
- English Word Cavernulous Definition Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.
- English Word Cavesson Definition Alt. of Cavezon
- English Word Cavetto Definition A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.
- English Word Cavezon Definition A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.
- English Word Caviar Definition The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
- English Word Caviare Definition Alt. of Caviar
- English Word Cavicorn Definition Having hollow horns.
- English Word Cavicornia Definition A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.