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