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- English Word Cavally Definition A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]
- English Word Cavalry Definition That part of military force which serves on horseback.
- English Word Cavalryman Definition One of a body of cavalry.
- English Word Cavatina Definition Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
- English Word Cave Definition A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
- English Word Cave Definition Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
- English Word Cave Definition To make hollow; to scoop out.
- English Word Cave Definition To dwell in a cave.
- English Word Cave Definition To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
- English Word Caveat Definition A notice given by an interested party 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.
- English Word Caveat Definition A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
- English Word Caveat Definition Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
- English Word Caveating Definition Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
- English Word Caveator Definition One who enters a caveat.
- English Word Caved Definition of Cave
- English Word Cavendish Definition Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
- English Word Cavern Definition A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
- English Word Caverned Definition Containing caverns.
- English Word Caverned Definition Living in a cavern.
- English Word Cavernous Definition Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.