Grave

·noun To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

II. Grave ·superl Slow and solemn in movement.

III. Grave ·superl Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

IV. Grave ·noun To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

V. Grave ·noun To Entomb; to Bury.

VI. Grave ·superl Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

VII. Grave ·superl Not acute or sharp; low; deep;

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

VIII. Grave ·vi To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

IX. Grave ·noun To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to Engrave.

X. Grave ·noun An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

XI. Grave ·noun To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to Sculpture; as, to grave an Image.

XII. Grave ·superl Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious;

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

XIII. 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.