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To cut. [Obs.] Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser.

Same as Caravel.

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic] A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

To cut completely; to cut off. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

ine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.

A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.

A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. -- Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. Locke. -- Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw. -- Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a subs…

pret. of Carve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act or art of one who carves.