Definition of grave

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Grave (superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc..

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Fill :: Fill (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel..
Matronal :: Matronal (a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
Gravedigger :: Gravedigger (n.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t..
#NAME? :: -grave () A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave..
Soberly :: Soberly (adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
Grave :: Grave (n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Graveclothes :: Graveclothes (n. pl.) The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
Graving :: Graving (n.) That which is graved or carved.
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
Sculpture :: Sculpture (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave..
Sharp-cut :: Sharp-cut (a.) Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear..
Superscript :: Superscribe (v. t.) To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter..
Galvanography :: Galvanography (n.) A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.
Auxesis :: Auxesis (n.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.
Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..
Charnel :: Charnel (n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
Graver :: Graver (n.) One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
Landgravine :: Landgravine (n.) The wife of a landgrave.
Ballast :: Ballast (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid..
Home :: Home (n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul..
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