Search Details
Word: grave
(lookup usage)
(lookup stats)
Meaning:
Adjective:
- music Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
- music Slow and solemn in movement.
- Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
- obsolete Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
- Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »
Verb:
- obsolete To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
- obsolete|nautical 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.
- obsolete To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- obsolete To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
- obsolete To Chaucer.
- obsolete To entomb; to bury. ?Chaucer.
- obsolete To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »