Definition of grave

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Grave (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face..

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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.
Ratchel :: Ratchel (n.) Gravelly stone.
Ingrave :: Ingrave (v. t.) To bury.
Alluvium :: Alluvium (n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas..
Grave :: Grave (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face..
Graveolent :: Graveolent (a.) Having a rank smell.
Sadden :: Sadden (v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
Burial :: Burial (n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly..
Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..
Exarate :: Exarate (v. t.) To plow up; also, to engrave; to write..
Sermonical :: Sermonical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic..
Blind :: Blind (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled..
Print :: Print (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book..
Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Dry :: Dry (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit..
Landgrave :: Landgrave (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
Plate :: Plate (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate..
Insculptured :: Insculptured (p. a.) Engraved.
Leachy :: Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like..
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