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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Block Book :: Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
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..
Tombstone :: Tombstone (n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased..
Cothurnated :: Cothurnated (a.) Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
Incise :: Incise (v. t.) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
Scauper :: Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving..
Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..
Grave :: Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave..
Pinxit :: Pinxit () A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this)..
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich..
Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Solemnize :: Solemnize (v. t.) To make grave, serious, and reverential..
Mezzotinter :: Mezzotinter (n.) One who engraves in mezzotint.
Talisman :: Talisman (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence..
Gravel :: Gravel (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom..
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