Word Finder - caves

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A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

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We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.

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A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

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A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

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This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.

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A place of retreat, such as a man cave.

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My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.

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A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.

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It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.

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A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.

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(drilling) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.

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A collapse or cave-in.

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The vagina.

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(often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.

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Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

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A code cave.

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To surrender.

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He caved under pressure.

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To collapse.

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First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.

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To hollow out or undermine.

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The levee has been severely caved by the river current.

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To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.

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I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.

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• spelunk

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In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.

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The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.

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To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.

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To dwell in a cave.

They lived in natural or artificial caves in their mountains.

The caves are distant 65 m.

It is worn by solution into caves and swallow-holes (Wondergarten).

They live in caves, especially in Caripe, and are caught in large numbers for the oil extracted from them, which is commonly known as " Caripe butter."

Here are numerous caves in the rock, used for the worship of Artemis.

The caves are in a wooded and rugged ravine about 31 m.

It is found chiefly where the Buddhist religion prevailed in ancient times, in Bihar and along the foot of the Himalayas and in western India, where it particularly flourishes in the neighbourhood of the Buddhist caves at Ajanta.

Huge caves, of which the most noted are the Farm Caves, occur in the hills near Moulmein, and they too are full of relics of their ancient use as temples, though now they are chiefly visited in connexion with the bats, whose flight viewed from a distance, as they issue from the caves, resembles a cloud of smoke.

Jerome describes Idumaea as extending from Beit Jibrin to Petra, and ascribes the great caves at the former place to cavedwellers like the aboriginal Horites.

To these the semi-sedentary Arabs who sparsely cultivate the river valley, dwelling sometimes in huts, sometimes in caves, pay a tribute, called kubbe, or brotherhood, as do also the riverain towns and villages, except perhaps the very largest.

Thus the occurrence of blind animals in caves and in the deep sea was a fact which Darwin himself regarded as best explained by the atrophy of the organ of vision in successive generations through the absence of light and 1 Weismann, Vererbung, &c. (1886).

In the vicinity there are a number of sacred caves, among which those of Pandu Lena are the most noteworthy.

They are ancient Buddhist caves dating from the 3rd century before Christ to the 6th century after.

Embalming seems not to have been universal, and bodies were often simply hidden in caves or buried.

The deposits in the great limestone caves of Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana have been probably derived from the overlying soil and accumulated by percolating water; they are of no commercial value.

Not far from the grotto are several other caves, where prehistoric remains have been found.

In the vicinity are the troglodyte caverns of Monte Scaglioso, still inhabited by some of the lower classes, and other caves with 13thcentury frescoes.

He laid siege to them, and his men could only gain access to the caves by being let down from above.

Six chambers were thus formed which showed the chaste beauty of Greek workmanship, while the stratum of native rock which covered them gave a touch of nature and made them caves.

The Cave Hill, though exceeded in height by Mount Divis, Squire's Hill, and other summits, is of greatest interest for its caves, in the chalk, from which early weapons and other objects have been recovered.

Owing to the rugged character of the coast and its numerous ravines and caves the whole district was once infested with smugglers.

The Bushmen have left in drawings on caves and in rocks traces of their habitation in regions where they are no longer to be found.

In northern countries bears retire during the winter into caves and the hollows of trees, or allow the falling snow to cover them, and there remain dormant till the advent of spring, about which time the female usually produces her young.

He was, however, a desultory student, and in 1870 was advised to go to the little village of Martinhoe, in Devon, for quiet reading, but distinguished himself more by his daring climbs after seagulls' eggs and his engineering skill in cutting a pathway along precipitous cliffs to some caves.

But these are only surmises, based upon the fact that in various dry caves limbs still surrounded by the mummified flesh and skin, feathers, and even eggs with the inner membrane, have been found.

Great quantities of bones have been found in caves and in swamps, so that now nearly every part of the skeleton, of some kind or other, is known.

These caves or catacombs are the most striking characteristic of the place; the name Pechersk, indeed, is connected with the Russian peshchera, " a cave."

The first series of caves, dedicated to St Anthony, contains eighty saints' tombs; the second, dedicated to St Theodosius, a saint greatly venerated in Russia, about forty-five.

More than twenty caves were discovered on the slope of a hill (Kirilov Street), and one of them, excavated in 1876, proved to have belonged to neolithic troglodytes.

Considerable remains of it, and of the caves from which it took its name, still exist 1 m.

The swan is identical with an extinct species found in caves and kitchen-middens in New Zealand, which was contemporaneous with the prehistoric Maoris and was largely used by them for food.

After this comes the creation of the four men and their wives who are the ancestors of the Quiches, and the tradition records the migrations of the nation to Tulan, otherwise called the Seven Caves, and thence across the sea, whose waters were divided for their passage.

The ancient Jews were a striking exception; for though the frequent mention of ancestral graves on hilltops or in caves, and in connexion with sacred trees and pillars, and the resemblance of the "elohim" in Exod.

Thence she contributed some clever papers, " From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan " (published separately in English, London, 1892) to the Russky Vyestnik.

A considerable part of the population still dwells in caves.

The rocks composing the cliffs are worn into caves, and around the island are many fantastic arches and columns.

The locality is also celebrated for the extensive system of caves in the limestone rocks found in its vicinity, which were described by Humboldt in his Personal Narrative.

These caves are frequented by a species of night-hawk, called guacharo, which nests in the recesses of the rocks.

It is also found associated with limestone, as in the Mammoth Caves, Kentucky, and with gypsum, as atMontmartre.

Outside Egypt mummification was practised amongst the ancient Peruvians, who took advantage of the desiccating atmosphere and salt soil of their caves for preserving the dead in good condition without any embalming process.

Special mention may be made of Megamys, from the caves of Brazil, which, while apparently allied to the living viscacha, attained dimensions approximating to those of a hippopotamus.

The most striking part of the Jain remains at Gwalior is a series of caves or rock-cut sculptures, excavated in the rock on all sides, and numbering nearly a hundred, great and small.

The caves are of two kinds - dwelling-halls and meeting-halls.

The caves are in three groups, the oldest group being of various dates from 200 B.C. to A.D.200, the second group belonging, approximately, to the 6th, and the third group to the 7th century A.D.

Most of the interior walls of the caves were covered with fresco paintings, of a considerable degree of merit, and somewhat in the style of the early Italian painters.

Particular sites, rivers, springs, hills, meadows, caves, rocks, trees or groves, are holy and from time immemorial have been so, as the natural homes or haunts of gods or spirits.

Another curious feature of Mauna Loa, and to some extent of other Hawaiian volcanoes, is the great number of caves, some of them as much as 60 to 80 ft.

It is conjectured, not without some reason, that there is a connexion, as yet undiscovered, between the Colossal and the Mammoth caves.

Often they are represented as living a primitive life in caves and desolate places, and their character is usually ferocious.

The individuals in which this diminished pigmentation is found are for the most part those living in caves, and it is probable that their condition is not truly albinotic, but only temporary and due to the absence of the stimulus of light.