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Webster 1913 Edition
Grave
Grave
,Verb.
T.
(Naut.)
To clean, as a vessel’s bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; – so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
Grave
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Graver
(grāv′ẽr)
; sup
erl.
Gravest.
] 1.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
[Obs.]
His shield
grave
and great. Chapman.
2.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; – said of character, relations, etc.;
as,
grave
deportment, character, influence, etc.Most potent,
grave
, and reverend seigniors. Shakespeare
A
grave
and prudent law, full of moral equity. Milton.
3.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain;
as, a
. grave
color; a grave
face4.
(Mus.)
(a)
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; – said of sound;
as, a
. grave
note or key(b)
Slow and solemn in movement.
Syn. – Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important.
–
Grave
, Sober
, Serious
, Solemn.
Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay
or flighty
; as,
. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to sober
thoughtjocose
or sportive
; as, serious and important concerns
. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc., which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity
of feeling or vivacity
of manner; as, a
. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; qrave
remark; qrave
attireas, a
. solemn
admonition; a solemn
promiseGrave
,Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Graved
(grāvd)
; p. p.
Graven
(grāv′’n)
or Graved
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Graving
.] 1.
To dig.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. He hath
graven
and digged up a pit. Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer).
2.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and
grave
on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 9.
3.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture;
as, to
. grave
an imageWith gold men may the hearte
grave
. Chaucer.
4.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
Prior.
5.
To entomb; to bury.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Lie full low,
graved
in the hollow ground. Shakespeare
Grave
,Verb.
I.
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
Grave
,Noun.
[AS.
gr?f
, fr. grafan
to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf
, G. grab
, Icel. gröf
, Russ. grob'
grave, coffin. See Grave
to carve.] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
He bad lain in the
grave
four days. John xi. 17.
Grave wax
, adipocere
. Webster 1828 Edition
Grave
GRAVE
, a final syllable, is a grove.GRAVE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.] Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex.28.
2.
To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Ex.20.
3.
To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.4.
To entomb. [Unusual.]GRAVE
,Verb.
I.
GRAVE
,Noun.
1.
The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.2.
A tomb.3.
Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality. Flanders was formerly the grave of English armies. Russia proved to be the grave of the French army under Bonaparte. The tropical climates are the grave of American seamen and of British soldiers.4.
Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]