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2. (U. S. Patent Laws) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed.

3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion.
Jeffrey.

Caveat emptor[L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

Caveating
(Ca"ve*a`ting) n. (Fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

Caveator
(Ca"ve*a`tor) n. One who enters a caveat.

Cavendish
(Cav"en*dish) n. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

Cavern
(Cav"ern) n. [L. caverna, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. caverne.] A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Caverned
(Cav"erned) a.

1. Containing caverns.

The wolves yelled on the caverned hill.
Byron.

2. Living in a cavern. "Caverned hermit." Pope.

Cavernous
(Cav"ern*ous) a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.]

1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

2. Filled with small cavities or cells.

3. Having a sound caused by a cavity.

Cavernous body, a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. — Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

Cavernulous
(Ca*ver"nu*lous) a.[L. cavernula, dim. of caverna cavern.] Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

Cavesson
(Cav"es*son Cav"e*zon) n. [F. caveçon, augm. fr. LL. capitium a head covering hood, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Caberzon.] (Man.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

Cavetto
(||Ca*vet"to) n. [It. cavetto, fr. cavo hollow, L. cavus.] (Arch.) A concave molding; — used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.

Caviare
(Ca*viare" Cav"i*ar) n. [F. caviar, fr. It. caviale, fr. Turk. Haviar.] The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; — used as a relish, esp. in Russia.