Definition of grave

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Grave (v. t.) 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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Tumulus :: Tumulus (n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow..
Waldgrave :: Waldgrave (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper..
Graveyard :: Graveyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
Bass Drum :: Bass drum () The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a..
Copperplate :: Copperplate (n.) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
Cascalho :: Cascalho (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found..
Graver :: Graver (n.) An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.
Graves :: Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Palgrave :: Palgrave (n.) See Palsgrave.
Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
Cothurnated :: Cothurnated (a.) Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
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..
Bass :: Bass (a.) Deep or grave in tone.
Polytype :: Polytype (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief..
Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk..
Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river)..
Ingrave :: Ingrave (v. t.) To engrave.
Uncharnel :: Uncharnel (v. t.) To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume.
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