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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.

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.

A cavern. [Obs.] Shak.

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

(Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. -- Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds. -- Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window,…

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

d where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

Having bowels; hollow. "The boweled cavern." Thomson.

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

nto the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39.

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.

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

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.

perfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.