GRAVE

noun to dig. chaucer.

2. grave ·superl slow and solemn in movement.

3. grave ·superl of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

4. grave ·noun to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

5. grave ·noun to entomb; to bury.

6. grave ·superl not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

7. grave ·superl not acute or sharp; low; deep;

— said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

8. grave ·vi to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

9. grave ·noun to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

10. grave ·noun an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. hence: death; destruction.

11. grave ·noun to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

12. grave ·superl of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious;

— said of character, relations, ·etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, ·etc.

13. grave ·vt 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.