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concavare

concavare [CL] , to hollow out. b (pass.) to be sunken. scopulum ~atum fluctibus de mare erumpens V. Cuthb. III 4; 1237 rupem juxta barbacanam ~ari facias (Breve) Cal. Liberate VI app. 2436; informativa virtus agit v modis, asperando, leniendo, ~ando, perforando, assimilando Gilb. VI 242. 1; Wallingf. (Rect.) I 416 (v. 1 coxa 2).  b oculi pregnantis diminuuntur, id est ‥ ~antur M. Scot Phys. 15; 1437 pro ‥ emendacione viarum ~atarum et magis profundarum Reg. Cant. II 551; 1492 via regia ibidem est ~ata et perforata CourtR Ottery St. M. r. 98d..

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