Grave(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Grave(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Grave(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
Grave(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Grave(n.) To entomb; to bury.
Grave(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
Grave(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Grave(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Grave(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Grave(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Grave(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.
Grave(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
Grave(v. t.) 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.
Graved() of Grave
Graved(imp.) of Grave
Gravely(adv.) In a grave manner.
Graveness(n.) The quality of being grave.
Graves(n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Graving(n.) The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
Graving(n.) The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio.
Graving(n.) That which is graved or carved.
Graving(n.) Impression, as upon the mind or heart.
Graving(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grave
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