<B>caveat emptor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) let the buyer beware; you buy at your own risk. <BR> <I>Ex. Although subsidy publishing [by vanity presses] is advertised as a useful adjunct to trade publishing--as, indeed, it sometimes is--the dictum of caveat emptor is nowhere more applicable (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caveator">
<B>caveator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who notifies by means of a caveat. </DL>
<A NAME="cavebear">
<B>cave bear,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large extinct bear of the Quaternary geological period, contemporary with man, whose fossil has been found in the caves of Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="cavecanem">
<B>cave canem,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) beware the dog. </DL>
<A NAME="cavecricket">
<B>cave cricket,</B> <B>=camel cricket.</B></DL>
<A NAME="cavedrawing">
<B>cave drawing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the specimens of paleolithic pictorial art which have been found in caves in various parts of the world. </DL>
<A NAME="cavedweller">
<B>cave dweller,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who lived in a cave in prehistoric times; a cave man. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who lives in a cave, especially a member of any of those groups in some countries of the Middle East where poverty is extreme. </DL>
<A NAME="cavefish">
<B>cavefish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fish that lives in the underground streams of caves, and has rudimentary eyes, useless for vision; blindfish. </DL>
<A NAME="cavehyena">
<B>cave hyena,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an extinct hyena whose fossil has been found in many caves of Great Britain along with the bones of other extinct animals. </DL>
<A NAME="cavein">
<B>cave-in, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a caving in; collapse. <BR> <I>Ex. a tunnel cave-in, the cave-in of a mine.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a place where something has caved in. </DL>
<A NAME="cavel">
<B>cavel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical.) a wooden cleat or the like to which sheets or other ropes are belayed. </DL>
<A NAME="cavelion">
<B>cave lion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an extinct lion whose fossil has been found in European caves containing the remains of extinct animals. </DL>
<A NAME="caveman">
<B>cave man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man who lived in a cave in prehistoric times; cave dweller. <BR> <I>Ex. The first painter may have been a cave man who stained his fingers with the juices of the berries he was picking and then began to play at making pretty hen tracks on some convenient rocky slab (Abraham B. Cohen).</I> (SYN) troglodyte. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a rough, crude man. <BR> <I>Ex. He was a gorilla in appearance, a cave man in behavior.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cavendish">
<B>cavendish, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a softened and sweetened smoking tobacco pressed into cakes, then flaked or shredded. </DL>
<A NAME="caveofadullam">
<B>cave of Adullam,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in English politics) a secession, or group of people who secede, from a political party on a particular issue (from a speech by John Bright comparing the seceders of the English Liberal Party in 1886 to the followers of David who joined him in the cave of Adullam where David fled to escape King Saul. (In the Bible, I Samuel 22-1, 2). </DL>
<A NAME="cavepainting">
<B>cave painting,</B> <B>=cave drawing.</B></DL>
<A NAME="caver">
<B>caver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who explores or studies caves as an avocation; spelunker. </DL>
<A NAME="cavern">
<B>cavern, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a large cave. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to enclose in or as if in a cavern. <BR> <I>Ex. Sickness sits cavern'd in his hollow eye (Byron).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to hollow out; excavate. <BR> <I>Ex. The rock was caverned out to make a tunnel.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cavernicolous">
<B>cavernicolous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inhabiting caverns; dwelling in caves. </DL>
<A NAME="cavernous">
<B>cavernous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>like a cavern; large and hollow. <BR> <I>Ex. a cavernous cellar. This was a cavernous structure that had once been an aquarium (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) deep-set. <BR> <I>Ex. cavernous eyes.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of caverns. <BR> <I>Ex. cavernous darkness.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) hollow-sounding; resonant. <BR> <I>Ex. a cavernous voice.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>full of caverns. <BR> <I>Ex. cavernous mountains.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>full of cavities or hollows; porous. <BR> <I>Ex. Pumice stones are cavernous.</I> adv. <B>cavernously.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cavernousrespiration">
<B>cavernous respiration,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hollow respiratory sound sometimes heard over a defective cavity in a lung. </DL>
<A NAME="cavernoussinus">
<B>cavernous sinus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a venous sinus of the cranial cavity, lying on the side of the body of the sphenoid bone. </DL>
<A NAME="cavernulous">
<B>cavernulous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of little cavities or sockets, as those of the gums of the teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="cavesson">
<B>cavesson, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a noseband of iron, leather, or wood, fastened to a headstall or strap to make a horse manageable. <DD><B> 2. </B>a halter with such a noseband. </DL>
<A NAME="cavetto">
<B>cavetto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-vetti,</B> <B>-tos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shallow, concave molding, in section usually a simple quarter circle, often used on or under a cornice. </DL>
<A NAME="caviar">
<B>caviar</B> or <B>caviare, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a salty relish made from the eggs of sturgeon or certain other large fish, eaten as an appetizer. <BR><I>expr. <B>caviar to the general,</B> </I>unpalatable to those who have not acquired a taste for it; not appreciated by common people. <BR> <I>Ex. For the play I remember pleas'd not the million, 'twas caviare to the general: but it was an excellent play (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cavicorn">
<B>cavicorn, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) <DD><I>adj. </I> having hollow horns. <DD><I>noun </I> a cow, sheep, goat, etc., with hollow horns. </DL>
<A NAME="cavie">
<B>cavie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a hencoop. Also, <B>cavy.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cavil">
<B>cavil, </B>verb, <B>-iled,</B> <B>-iling</B> or (especially British) <B>-illed,</B> <B>-illing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to find fault without good reason; raise trivial objections; carp. <BR> <I>Ex. He cavils about the minor points in the rules of the game. Those who do not value Christianity ... cavil about sects and schisms (Daniel Webster).</I> (SYN) criticize. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to find fault with without good reason; raise trivial objections about; carp at. <BR> <I>Ex. There are men whose intellectual pride cavils and perverts ... every truth of the revelation of God (H. E. Manning).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a trivial objection; petty criticism. <BR> <I>Ex. I must add one cavil: the pot is an eyesore (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the raising of trivial objections; caviling. <BR> <I>Ex. His measures were sure to be the subject of perpetual cavil (John L. Motley).</I> (SYN) carping. noun <B>caviler,</B> <B>caviller.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caviling">
<B>caviling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> disposed to find fault; carping; captious. <BR> <I>Ex. a caviling logician.</I> adv. <B>cavilingly.</B> </DL>
<B>cavitand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hollow molecule with one open end. <BR> <I>Ex. Cram can also combine a pair of his cavitands to form a closed hollow shell ... a "carcerand" (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cavitary">
<B>cavitary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a cavity; hollow. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Medicine.) of or having to do with cavitation. </DL>
<A NAME="cavitation">
<B>cavitation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Physics.) the formation of cavities in a fluid downstream from an object moving in it, as behind the moving blades of a propeller. <BR> <I>Ex. Cavitation is produced by high speed propellers and causes heavy erosions in armour plates (Gabriele Rabel).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Medicine.) the formation of cavities in any body structure, especially in tuberculous lungs. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of the cavities thus formed. </DL>
<B>cavity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hollow place; hole. Cavities in teeth are caused by decay. (SYN) pocket, pit. <DD><B> 2. </B>an enclosed space inside the body. <BR> <I>Ex. the abdominal cavity.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cavityresonator">
<B>cavity resonator,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any enclosure in which waves of a given frequency will resonate, especially a metal chamber for reinforcing microwaves. </DL>
<A NAME="caviunawood">
<B>caviuna wood,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rosewood obtained from a tall leguminous tree of Brazil. </DL>
<A NAME="cavorilievo">
<B>cavo-rilievo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-vos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> sculptural relief largely sunk below the surface in which the highest portions are level with the general surface; hollow relief. </DL>
<A NAME="cavort">
<B>cavort, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) to prance about; jump around. <BR> <I>Ex. The horses cavorted with excitement. The boy cavorted about the field, racing and tumbling.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cavu">
<B>CAVU </B>(no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> (Aeronautics.) Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited. </DL>
<A NAME="cavum">
<B>cavum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-va.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) the cavity of any organ, such as the heart. </DL>
<A NAME="cavy">
<B>cavy</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>-vies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several South American rodents, related to the porcupine. Cavies are short-tailed or tailless and burrow in the ground. The guinea pig is the best known. It is commonly raised as a pet or laboratory animal. </DL>
<A NAME="cavy">
<B>cavy</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>-vies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) cavie. </DL>
<A NAME="caw">
<B>caw, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the harsh cry made by a crow or raven. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make this cry. </DL>
<A NAME="cawquaw">
<B>cawquaw, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a porcupine of northern North America whose spines were often used for ornamentation by the Indians. </DL>
<A NAME="caxton">
<B>Caxton, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. <DD><B> 2. </B>a style of printing type in black letters like that used by Caxton. </DL>
