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To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.

ntal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton. Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak.

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

Having the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.] If the seal be depress or hollow. Hammond.

Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

d dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

he spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

Dish-shaped; concave.

The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]

An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.

vered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. Milton.

To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).