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A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

rty 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. Bouvier.

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

One who enters a caveat.

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Calumn.

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.

A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.]

A sweet wine. See Calcavella.

f the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.

Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

Hollowness; concavity.

Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." Shak.