Grave /(?)/

1. 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. (Naut.)

1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [Obs.]

   His shield grave and great.

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

   Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors.

   A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity.

3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
4. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. (Mus.)

   The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.

5. Slow and solemn in movement.

imp. Graved; p. p. Graven; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving

1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. [Obs.]

   He hath graven and digged up a pit.

2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

   Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.

3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

   With gold men may the hearte grave.

4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

   O! may they graven in thy heart remain.

5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.]

   Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

1. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

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

   He bad lain in the grave four days.