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Cave   /keɪv/   Listen
noun
Cave  n.  
1.
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
2.
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. (Obs.) "The cave of the ear."
3.
(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.



verb
Cave  v. t.  (past & past part. caved; pres. part. caving)  To make hollow; to scoop out. (Obs.) "The mouldred earth cav'd the banke."



Cave  v. i.  
1.
To dwell in a cave. (Obs.)
2.
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.
To cave in.
(a)
To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit.
(b)
To submit; to yield. (Slang)






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"Cave" Quotes from Famous Books



... our peace. But why these words? No moment this for talk, Lest he discern my coming, and I lose The scheme, wherewith I think to catch him soon. Now most behoves thy service, to explore This headland for a cave with double mouth, Whose twofold aperture, on wintry days, Gives choice of sunshine, and in summer noons The breeze wafts slumber through the airy cell. Then, something lower down, upon the left, Unless 'tis dried, thine eye may note a spring. Go near ...
— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

... face now rivaled his locks in color and whose fists were doubled up. "I mean that ivory—that narwhal's horn. We're going to Alaska and we can find that cave." ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor

... conjectured with considerable accuracy that the use of this tool was for similar purposes, and the thoughts and beliefs that clustered around its use were the same in each tribe. Thus may be estimated the degree of progress of the primitive race. Or if an inscription on a cave of an extinct race showed a similarity to an inscription used by a living race, it would seem that they had the same background for such expression, and that similar instincts, emotions, and reflections ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... Charley Lohr was amazed; he ruffled up his gray moustache with thumb and forefinger, leaving his mouth open beneath, like a dark cave under a tangled wintry thicket. "Why, that's the doggonedest thing I ever heard!" he said. "I already am the oldest inhabitant down there, but if you go, there won't be anybody else of the old generation at all. What on earth ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington

... Caliban is much exercised by the government of the world, and by the probable nature of its ruler; and he has niched an hour from his tasks, on a summer noon, when Prospero and Miranda are taking his diligence upon trust, to go and sprawl full length in the mud of some cave, and talk the problem out. The attitude is described, as his reflections are carried on, in his own words; but he speaks as children do, in ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr


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