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To excavate. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Inclosed in a cave.

Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton.

Between the cavernous sinuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain.

Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.

To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley.

so applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. -- Scavanger crab (Zoöl.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. -- Scavenger's daughter Etym: [corrupt. of Skevi…

Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.

Slightly concave. Owen.

. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the c…

Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebræ.

with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

king the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

A cavern. [Obs.] Shak.

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus. Huxley.

a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

To study or to talk astronomy. [R.] They astronomized in caves. Sir T. Browne.

ard. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used.