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caverned, ppl. a.|ˈkævənd| [f. cavern.] 1. Having caverns; hollowed out into caverns.
1715–20Pope Iliad ii. 852 Antron's watry dens, and cavern'd ground. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. iv. 1161 Blind recesses of the caverned rocks. 2. Formed as or like a cavern.
1847Disraeli Tancred vi. vii, Stealing into the caverned chamber. 3. Enclosed or ensconced in a cavern.
1734Pope Ess. Man iv. 42 No cavern'd Hermit rests self-satisfied. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xi. 140 There is rest on the surface of the caverned lake. |