1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ff2 Are not the Organs of the sences of one kinde with the Organs of Reflexion..the Eare with a Caue or Straight determined and bounded? View more context for this quotation

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 220 Some creepe into the caues of hollow trees.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §272 The Caue of the Eare doth hold off the Sound a little from the Organ.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §282 So is the Eare a sinuous Caue.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 656 The furnace is thrown over an ash-pit, or cave as it is called.

1866 J. Bright in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 182 219 The right hon. Gentleman..has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam—and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented.

1884 Daily News 19 Feb. There is no expectation of what Mr. Bright has taught all English politicians to call a ‘Cave’.

1887 Standard 30 Mar. 5/7 There are rumours of an Anti~coercion Cave in the Conservative ranks.

1887 Sir W. Harcourt in Daily News 21 Oct. 6/1 They [the Dissentient Liberals] are a cave, as it used to be called, and the danger of a cave was long ago pointed out that all the footsteps led into the cave, and none out of it.

1921 M. C. Burkitt Prehist. xv. 193 The authenticity of the cave art.

1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 July 547/1 The meaning of Pleistocene cave-art.

1923 H. H. Wilder Man's Prehist. Past 187 In modern art and in imaginative literature the early cave artists are commonly represented as working upon, or admiring their work.

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 1 The occasional occurrence..of the bones of man..in cave-breccias and stalactites.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times viii. 243 The animal was essentially a cave-dweller.

1906 B. von Hutten What became of Pam ii. xiii You will always be a cave-dweller,..for you always were a little savage.

1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxix. 443 This ancient deposit rests upon a second cave-earth or breccia.

1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 145 Found, like those famed cave-fish, to lack eye And organ for the upper magnitudes.

1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 527 The blind cave-fish being..probably the descendants of species which once lived above ground.

1937 H. Read Art & Society i. 31 The cave-painter at Altamira.

1882 Mag. of Art 5 249 The cave paintings of the Australians and the bushmen in South Africa.

1942 Burlington Mag. June 140/2 The old cave paintings of India.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species (1878) v. 110 One of the blind animals, namely, the cave-rat.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. ii. 260 The Cave-Spider..is very common in France and Italy.

1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. I3 The Roundheads & Cave's no more shall be nam'd.

1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. K7 Then the Roundheads and Caves agree.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Cave, a stroke, a push; a toss—as signifying to throw up the head. It is applied to the action of an ox or cow.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Kaive, a tossing of the fore legs, rearing; when followed by prep. up, it denotes climbing.

1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy vi. viii Gabriel was amazed to find that during the earthquake a ‘cave’ had taken place in the drift.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 319 A very serious cave occurred about 170 feet from the entrance of the drift.

1887 J. Farrell How he Died 164 A ‘cave’ had happened in a mine.

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xx^v Stooles..made..caue or holowe in the myddes.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 356 The..great veine called the Caue or hollow veine.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Mm3^v Its flowers are albid and cave, like a scale.

1670 J. Flamsteed Let. 16 July in Corr. (1995) I. 48 As if the parallax caused the Moone to be really cave.

1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica i. i. vii. 19 If the Month were Cave or Lame of 29 Days only.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man p. 449 And in kavyd stones ffounde an hoole, an yrchone to have his Reffuge ther Inne.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Dj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Is it possyble..that an vlcere caued my growe togyther... To cure caued vlceres.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E6 Vnder a steepe hilles side..Where the mouldred earth had cav'd the banke. View more context for this quotation

1861 ‘Holme Lee’ Adv. Tuflongbo 35 As if the ground were caved full of hollow galleries.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 139 Such as wee Caue heere, hunt heere. View more context for this quotation

1828 D. Moir in Blackwood's Mag. 368 In the same lair the tame beast and the wild Together caved.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxxxiii. 46 They, Who in oppression's darkness caved had dwelt.

1881 Liverpool Mercury 13 Jan. 5/4 The feeling that (to use a new verb, now heard constantly in the lobby) to ‘cave’ would be ungenerous.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xiii. 43 He cawis our [1553 cauis ouer], furth bokand stremys of blude.

a1614 J. Melville Diary 32 (Jam.) Stitting down on a bedside, he caves back over so that his feet stack out stiff and dead.

1854 S. Bamford Dial. S. Lanc. (ed. 2) Kayve, to upset, to turn over. ‘He's keyvt his cart.’

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Cave, to turn over; to tilt up, so as to empty. ‘Now then, look afore yo', or yo'n cave that bouk o'er an' sheed all the milk.’

1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II 171 Kayve, to overturn, to upset. Kayvt, upset, turned over.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Cave, keve, to push, to drive backward and forward. To cave the head, to toss it in a haughty or awkward way (like a horse or cow).

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Kaive, to toss the fore leg, to rear (as a horse, a goat). Banffsh.

a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 66 Upstarts a priest..And did not ceese to cave and paut While clyred back was prickt and gald.

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 12 Sawney..A whornpeype danc'd, and keav'd and pranc'd.

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 85 The laird's daft son..keaves as he wad wurry me.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Keave, to plunge, to struggle. Cumbld.

1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 92 A old kaved in hat.

1882 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home vii. 309 An Hour in the Caved Mines.

1953 R. Graves Poems 19 A caved-in chest, hairy black mandibles.

1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 6 Sept. The most extensive cave-in that has occurred in this region for years, nearly one hundred acres of ground settling from four to six feet. [‘Common in Suffolk.’ F. Hall.]

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 996 A place high, plain and pure When nede is therto cave upon thi corne.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 479 I cave corne, Jescoux le grain.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 323 To Cave, or Chave, is with a large Rake, or such like Instrument, to divide the greater from the lesser; as the larger Chaff from the Corn or smaller Chaff. Also larger coals from the lesser.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 94 To Keave, to rake the short straws and ears from wheat on the barn floor.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 127 They [sc. young trees] will serve for flayle-handstaffes, Cavinge rake-shaftes..and such other like uses.

1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 298 The short chaffy substance thus separated, is in some districts termed cavings.

1865 Cornhill Mag. July 33 In the Midland districts, ears of corn when thrashed are..‘cavvins’.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cavings, refuse bits of straw and dirt mixed with small corn, after threshing. Caving-rake, a rake used for separating the long bits of straw from corn before dressing. Caving-riddle, a riddle used after threshing for separating the corn from the bits of short straw which have come down the machine with it.

1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 6^v Nowe thou wilte crye Caue when thy coyne is consumed, and beware when thy wealth is wracked.]

1868 Cassell's Mag. 17 Oct. 390/1 [Title of Poem] Cave!

1873 ‘A. R. Hope’ Night before Holidays 110 There was a heavy footstep sounding along the passage... ‘Cave!’ ‘Canem,’ responded Lessing, burying himself under the bedclothes again.

1883 M. E. Braddon Phantom Fortune xxxvi That indefinable air..which gives society as fair a warning as if the man wore a placard on his shoulder with the word Cave.

1906 E. Nesbit Railway Children xiv. 295 He won't keep cave, shirks his turn And says he came to school to learn!

1922 Blackwood's Mag. May 557/2 One of their number doing sentry-go gives the native equivalent for the schoolboy's ‘Cave’ on the reappearance of their employer.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 373 The term ‘keeping cave’..only rarely extends to boys who do not possess any Latin... The look-out in a grammar school..may call just ‘Cave!’ (pronounced kave or kay-ve).