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Carve

Carve (carve)
v. t.(kärv)
Carve
[imp. *** p. p. Carved (kä]rvd); p. pr. *** vb. n. Carving.] [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve] akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr.
  1. To cut.
    [Obs.]

    Or they will carven the shepherd's throat.
    Spenser.

  2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

    Carved with figures strange and sweet.
    Coleridge.

  3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.

    An angel carved in stone.
    Tennyson.

    We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone.
    C. Wolfe.

  4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
    "To carve a capon." Shak.
  5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

    My good blade carved the casques of men.
    Tennyson.

    A million wrinkles carved his skin.
    Tennyson.

  6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

    Who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
    South.

  7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

    Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
    Shak.

    To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak.

    Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
    Macaulay.


Carve

Carve (carve)
v. i.
Carve
  1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
  2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

Carve

Carve (carve)
n.
Carve
  1. A carucate.
    [Obs.] Burrill.













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