a. Obs. [f. L. concav-us CONCAVE + -OUS: cf. CAVOUS.] = CONCAVE.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 11. Collumbus … will haue them [ossicles] Concauous and hollow.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 74/1. Applye that on the Concavouse tooth, and the wormes will fall out.

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1631.  Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 30. All the concavous parts of his body … were filled vp with solid lead.

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1697.  Potter, Antiq. Greece, II. xiv. (1715), 316. The concavous part of the Liver.

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  Hence † Concavously adv., concavely.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. ii. (1686), 192. The Dolphin … is Concavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed.

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