incaverned

English

Etymology

in- +‎ cavern +‎ -ed

Adjective

incaverned (not comparable)

  1. Enclosed or shut up as if in a cavern.
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 6:
      Then Lid creeps on along, and taking Thrushel, throwes
      Her selfe amongst the rocks; and so incavern’d goes,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for incaverned in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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