Cave Synonyms & Definitions

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• CaveDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
2. (v. i.) 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.
3. (n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
4. (n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
5. (n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
6. (n.) A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

• CaveatDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
2. (n.) 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.
3. (n.) 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.

• CaveatingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversarys sword to the other.