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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
carved \carved\ adjective formed by carving or having a design carved into the surface. [Narrower terms: {sliced}]
Syn: carven. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Carve \Carve\ (k[aum]rv), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Carved} (k[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Carving}.] [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. gra'fein to write, orig. to scratch, and E. -graphy. Cf. {Graphic}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
carved
adjective: made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary); "the carved fretwork"; "an intricately carved door"; "stood as if carven from stone" [syn: {carven}] [ant: {uncarved}]
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