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/keɪv dwˈɛlər/ Listen

noun

Cave n.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. (Obs.) "The cave of the ear."

(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.

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... Final Utility.—If a cave dweller possesses a store of one hundred measures of nuts, he measures the final utility and the value of this store in the manner which we have described. If he were to be deprived of the whole stock, he might starve, but this fact does not afford the basis of the ...

— Essentials of Economic Theory - As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy • John Bates Clark