Defn: Having hollow horns.
CAVICORNIA
Cav`i*cor"ni*a, n.; pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
CAVIL
Cav"il, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caviled or Cavilled (; p. pr. & vb. n.
Caviling or Cavilling.] Etym: [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to
censure, fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.]
Defn: To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault
without good reason.
You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract.
Shak.
CAVIL
Cav"il, v. t.
Defn: To cavil at. [Obs.] Milton.
CAVIL
Cav"il, n.
Defn: A captious or frivolous objection.
All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief. Shak.
CAVIL; CAVILER; CAVILLER
Cav"il or Cav"il*er, n.