[f. CAVE sb.1 in varions casual applications.] Hence Caved ppl. a.
1. trans. To hollow, hollow out, excavate, make into a cave. Cf. CAVE (in) v.3
1541. R. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 D j. Is it possyble … that an vlcere caued may growe togyther … To cure caued vlceres.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. v. 33. Vnder a steepe hilles side … where the mouldred earth had cav’d the banke.
1861. ‘Holme Lee,’ Tuflongo, 35. As if the ground were caved full of hollow galleries.
2. intr. To lodge or lurk in a cave.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., IV. ii. 138. Such as wee Caue heere, hunt heere.
1828. D. Moir, in Blackw. Mag., 368. In the same lair the tame beast and the wild Together caved.
3. trans. To place or inclose as in a cave.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. lxxxiii. They Who in oppression’s darkness caved had dwelt.
4. intr. To form a political ‘cave’ or cabal.
1881. L’pool Mercury, 13 Jan., 5/4. The feeling on the Liberal side—that (to use a new verb, now heard constantly in the lobby) to ‘cave’ would be ungenerous.
