ppl. a. [f. CAVERN.]

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  1.  Having caverns; hollowed out into caverns.

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1715–20.  Pope, Iliad, II. 852. Antron’s watry dens, and cavern’d ground.

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1814.  Wordsw., Excurs., IV. 1161. Blind recesses of the caverned rocks.

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  2.  Formed as or like a cavern.

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1847.  Disraeli, Tancred, VI. vii. Stealing into the caverned chamber.

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  3.  Enclosed or ensconced in a cavern.

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1734.  Pope, Ess. Man, IV. 42. No cavern’d Hermit rests self-satisfied.

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1853.  Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. xi. 140. There is rest on the surface of the caverned lake.

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