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cavernous, a.|ˈkævənəs|
[ad. L. cavernōsus (in It. cavernoso, Pr. cavernos, F. caverneux), in same sense, f. caverna: see cavern and -ous.]
1. Abounding in caverns.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (1835) 108 This hyl is craggy and eke cavernous. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iii. i. (1723) 158 These Countryes being all Mountainous and Cavernous. 1750Warburton Julian ii. vi. (R.) The town and temple of Delphi were seated on a bare and cavernous rock. 1853Phillips Rivers Yorksh. iii. 111 The mountains are thoroughly cavernous.
2. Full of, or characterized by, cavities or interstices; having a porous texture; hollow in the middle. (Cf. cavern n. 2.)
1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 116 It [cancer] is hard, unequall, and cavernous, or hollow. 1731Bailey, Cavernous Ulcer is an Ulcer whose Entrance is straight, and the Bottom broad, wherein are many Holes filled with malignant Matter. 1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 403 The cavernous pumice-stone of Lipari. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. 302 The Human Spleen has no true cavernous structure. 1876T. Hardy Hand Ethelb. I. 118 Till the fire had grown haggard and cavernous.
3. a. Of the nature of or resembling a cavern; hollow.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 261 Some huge cavernous apertures into which the sea flows. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fort. III. 75 His thick eyebrows casting deep shadows on his cavernous eyes. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxiv. (1856) 193 The cavernous recess of its cliffs.
b. Med. Applied to respiration marked by a prolonged hollow resonance. (Cf. broncho-cavernous adj.)
1853W. O. Markham tr. Skoda's Auscult. 94 ‘By the term cavernous respiration,’ says Laennec, ‘I understand the murmur which occurs during inspiration and expiration in a cavity formed in pulmonary tissue.’ 1890F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. 341 Breath-sounds which deserve the name of cavernous are often heard over solid lung. 1944R. Coope Dis. Chest v. 71 All cavities will not necessarily act in this way as resonating chambers, and..cavities may be present without cavernous breathing.
4. Of or pertaining to a cavern.
1833I. Taylor Fanat. iv. 84 This cavernous inspiration. 1839Bailey Festus (1852) 142 Cavernous darkness.
Hence ˈcavernously adv., in a cavernous way.
1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 420 A rock that was cavernously hollow at the base. 1885G. Meredith Diana II. xii. 277 The Fates..were then beginning cavernously their performance of the part of the villain. |