Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAU'TION-ED, pp.

Warned; previously admonished.

CAU'TION-ER, n.

In Scots law, the person who is bound for another, to the performance of an obligation.

CAU'TION-ING, ppr.

Warning; giving previous notice of danger.

CAU'TION-RY, n.

In Scots law, the act of giving security for another, or the obligation by which one person becomes engaged as security for another, that he shall pay a sum of money or perform a deed. – Encyc.

CAU'TIOUS, a.

Wary; watchful; careful to avoid evils; attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of measures, with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect.

CAU'TIOUS-LY, adv.

With caution; in a wary, scrupulous manner.

CAU'TIOUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being cautions; watchfulness; provident care; circumspection; prudence with regard to danger. – Addison.

CAV'AL-CADE, n. [Fr. cavalcade; Sp. cabalgada; It. cavalcata. See Cavalry.]

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen and equipage, by way of parade, or to grace a triumph, the public entry of a person of distinction, &c.

CAV-A-LIER', a.

1. Gay; sprightly; warlike; brave; generous.
2. Haughty; disdainful.

CAV-A-LIER', n. [Fr. See Cavalry.]

1. A horseman, especially an armed horseman; a knight.
2. A gay, sprightly, military man.
3. The appellation of the party of king Charles I. – Swift.
4. In fortification, an elevation of earth, situated ordinarily in the gorge of a bastion, bordered with a parapet, with embrasures. – Encyc.
5. In the manege, one who understands horsemanship; one skilled in the art of riding.

CAV-A-LIER'ISM, n.

The practice or principles of cavaliers. – Scott.

CAV-A-LIER'LY, adv.

Haughtily; arrogantly; disdainfully. – Warburton.

CAV-A-LIER'NESS, n.

Haughtiness; a disdainful manner.

CAV'AL-RY, n. [Fr. cavalerie, from cavalier, a horseman, and this from cheval, a horse, whence cavalcade; It. cavallo, a horse, cavaliere, cavalcata; Sp. caballo, caballero, cabalgada, from L. caballus, a horse; Ir. capall and peall; Russ. kobila, a mare; Gr. καβαλλης, a pack-horse.]

A body of military troops on horses; a general term, including light-horse, dragoons, and other bodies of men, serving on horseback. – Encyc.

CA'VATE, v.t. [L. cavo, to make hollow.]

To dig out and make hollow; but superseded by excavate.

CA-VA'TED, pp.

Made hollow.

CAV-A-TI'NA, n. [It.]

In music, a short air, without a return or second part, which is sometimes relieved by recitative. – Busby.

CA-VA'TING, ppr.

Making hollow.

CA-VA'ZION, n. [L. cavo, to hollow.]

In architecture, the underdigging or hollowing of the earth for the foundation of a building, or for cellarage, allowed to be the sixth part of the highth of the building. – Johnson. Bailey.

CAVE, n. [Fr. cave; L. cavea; Sp. cueva; It. cava; Arm. caff, or cau; W. ogov; Hindoo, gopa; Ar. قَابَ kauba, to dig out or excavate, or جَافَ gaufa, to be hollow. Class Gb, No. 8, 71.]

A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den. This may be natural or artificial. The primitive inhabitants of the earth, in many countries, lived in caves; and the present inhabitants of some parts of the earth, especially in the high northern latitudes, occupy caves, particularly in winter. Lot dwelt in a cave, he and his daughters. – Gen. xix. Caves were also used for the burial of the dead. Abraham buried Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah. – Gen. xxiii. Bacon applies the word to the ear, “the cave of the ear;” but this application is unusual.

CAVE, v.i.

To dwell in a cave. – Shak. To cave in, to fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. When in digging into the earth, the side is excavated by a falling of a quantity of earth, it is said to cave in.

CAVE, v.t.

To make hollow. – Spenser.

CA'VE-A, n.

In ancient architecture, the dens or stables for wild beasts under the seats and around the arches of an amphitheater. – Elmes.

CA'VE-AT, n. [L. caveat, let him beware, from caveo.]

1. In law, a process in a court, especially in a spiritual court, to stop proceedings, as to stop the proving of a will; also to prevent the institution of a clerk to a benefice. – Blackstone. In America, it is used in courts of common law. – Cranch's Reports.
2. Intimation of caution; hint; warning; admonition.

CA'VE-AT, v.t.

To enter a caveat. – Judge Innes, Cranch's Reports.