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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. |
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Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. |
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Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate;
serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment,
character, influence, etc. |
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Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave
color; a grave face. |
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Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a
grave note or key. |
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Slow and solemn in movement. |
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To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
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To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard
substance; to engrave. |
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To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to
sculpture; as, to grave an image. |
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To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. |
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To entomb; to bury. |
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To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of
incised lines; to practice engraving. |
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An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any
place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. |