CAVEATING
CAVEATING, noun In fencing, is the shifting the sword from one side of that of your adversary to the other.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CAVEATOR
CAVEATOR, noun One who enters a caveat.
CAVERN
CAVERN, noun A deep hollow place in the earth. In general, it differs from cave in greater depth, and in being applied most usually to natural hollows, or chasms.Earth with its ...
CAVERNED
CAVERNED, adjective1. Full of caverns, or deep chasms; having caverns.2. Inhabiting a cavern.
CAVERNOUS
CAVERNOUS, adjective Hollow; full of caverns.
CAVERNULOUS
CAVERNULOUS, adjective Full of little cavities; as cavernulous metal.
CAVESSON
CAVESSON, noun A sort of nose-band, of iron, leather or wood, sometimes flat, and sometimes hollow or twisted, which is put on the nose of a horse to wring it, and thus to forwa...
CAVETTO
CAVETTO, noun In architecture, a hollow member, or round concave molding, containing the quadrant of a circle; used as an ornament in cornices.
CAVEZON
CAVEZON,CAVIAR, noun The roes of certain large fish, prepared and salted. The best is made from the roes of the sterlet, sturgeon, sevruga, and beluga, caught in the lakes of ri...
CAVIAR
CAVIAR, n. The roes of certain large fish, prepared and salted. The best is made from the roes of the sterlet, sturgeon, sevruga, and beluga, caught in the lakes of rivers of Ru...
CAVIL
CAVIL, verb intransitive1. To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason; followed by at.It is better to reason than to cavil2. To advance futile...
CAVILER
CAVILER, noun One who cavils; one who is apt to raise captious objections; a captious disputant.
CAVILING
CAVILING, participle present tense Raising frivolous objections.
CAVILINGLY
CAVILINGLY, adverb In a caviling manner.
CAVILLATION
CAVILLATION, noun The act or practice of caviling, or raising frivolous objections.
CAVILOUS
CAVILOUS, adjective Captious; unfair in argument; apt to object without good reason.
CAVILOUSLY
CAVILOUSLY, adverb In a cavilous manner; captiously.
CAVILOUSNESS
CAVILOUSNESS, noun Captiousness; disposition or aptitude to raise frivolous objections.
CAVIN
CAVIN, noun In the military art, a hollow way or natural hollow, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
CAVITY
CAVITY, noun A hollow place; hollowness; an opening; as the cavity of the mouth or throat. This is a word of very general signification.
CAVOLINITE
CAVOLINITE, noun A newly discovered Vesuvain mineral, of a hexahedral form, occurring in the interior of calcarious balls, accompanied with garnets, idocrase, mica, and granular...
CAVY
CAVY, noun A genus of quadrupeds, holding a middle place between the murine and leporine tribes.
CAW
CAW, verb intransitive To cry like a crow, rook or raven.
CAWK
CAWK, noun A name given by miners to certain specimens of the compact sulphate of baryte. These are of a white, gray or fawn color, often irregular in figure, but sometimes rese...
CAXOU
CAXOU, noun A chest of ores of any metal that has been burnt, ground and washed, and is ready to be refined.
CAYMAN
CAYMAN, noun An animal of the genus Lacerta, found in the West Indies, the alligator.
CAZIC
CAZIC, or CAZIQUE, noun The title of a king or chief among several tribes of Indians in America.