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A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. [Obs.] The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen. Chapman. A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals.

A grotto or cavern under ground. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Hung with spar, as a cave.

A cavern; a cave. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.

s resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.

of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

mpany of musketeers. Earl of Strafford. How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton.

A cave or room under ground. [R.] J. Bryant.

To go under cover. [A latinism. Obs.] Will you to the cooler cave succeed! Dryden.

, a surfy shore. Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves. Moore.

A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

eleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebræ.

A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.

A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.

An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.

One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.

often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).