Obs. [a. F. cave hollow, ad. L. cavus.] Hollow, concave. Of the moon: Waning (L. luna cava Plin.). Of a month: Having less than the usual number of days (late L. mensis cavus).
1540–64. Raynald, Byrth Mankynde, 61. Stooles … made … caue or holowe in the middes.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 356. The … great veine called the cave or hollow veine.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 264. Its flowers are albid and cave like a scale.
1670. Flamsteed, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 97. As if the parallax caused the moon to be really cave.
1677. R. Cary, Chronol., I. I. vii. 19. If the Month were Cave or Lame of 29 Days only.
