[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To enclose or ensconce as in a cavern.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 215 (1811), 225. The river is gathered into such a streight … that it seemeth to cavern itself.
1805. Southey, Madoc in Azt., xii. Now the child From light and life is cavern’d.
1822. Byron, Werner, II. ii. 351. Sickness sits cavern’d in his hollow eye.
2. To hollow out, so as to form a cavern.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlvii. (1854), 438. The sharpness and boldness of the lines where they were caverned and cloven down.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, vii. Wks. (Bohn), II. 421. The dungeons … dug and caverned out by grumbling … people.
1887. N. S. Shaler, in Scribner’s Mag., II. 452/2. Places of exit of the caverning streams.
3. intr. To lurk in a cavern; to den.
1860. S. Dobell, in Macm. Mag., Aug., 326/1.
| And, where the last deadliest rout | |
| Of furies cavern, to cast out | |
| Those Dæmons. |
