| grave | 1. To dig. Chaucer. "He hath graven and digged up a pit." (Ps. Vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer)) 2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. "Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel." (Ex. Xxviii. 9) 3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. "With gold men may the hearte grave." (Chaucer) 4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. "O! may they graven in thy heart remain." (Prior) 5. To entomb; to bury. "Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground." (Shak) Origin: AS. Grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. Greva, D. Graven, G. Graben, OHG. & Goth. Graban, Dan. Grabe, Sw. Grafva, Icel. Grafa, but prob. Not to Gr. Grafein to write, E. Graphic. Cf. Grave, Grove. 1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. "His shield grave and great." (Chapman) 2. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. "Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors." (Shak) "A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity." (Milton) 3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave colour; a grave face. 4. (Mus) (a) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; said of sound; as, a grave note or key. "The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone." (Moore (Encyc. Of Music)) Slow and solemn in movement. Grave accent. (Pron) See the Note under Accent. Synonym: Solemn, sober, serious, sage, staid, demure, thoughtful, sedate, weighty, momentous, important. Grave, Sober, Serious, Solemn. Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay or flighty; as, sober thought. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to jocose or sportive; as, serious and important concerns. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc, which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity of feeling or vivacity of manner; as, a qrave remark; qrave attire. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise. Origin: F, fr. L. Gravis heavy; cf. It. & Sp. Grave heavy, grave. See Grief. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grave robbing | The stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. The infamous practice of "burking", murder to procure bodies for dissection, was given the name of a rascal named w. Burke, hanged in edinburgh in 1829. (12 Dec 1998) |
| grave wax | A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown colour, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration. Origin: L. Adeps, adipis, fat + cera wax: cf. F. Adipocere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Grave's disease | <disease, endocrinology> A common cause of hyperthyroidism caused by an underlying autoimmune mechanism. (18 Nov 1997) |
| gravedigger | 1. A digger of graves. 2. <zoology> See Burying beetle, under Bury. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gravel | 1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk. 2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. "When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship." (Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version)) "Willam the Conqueror . . . Chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground." (Camden) 3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. "When you were graveled for lack of matter." (Shak) "The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say." (Sir T. North) 4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. Origin: Graveled or Gravelled; Graveling or Gravelling. 1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. 2. <medicine> A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. Origin: OF. Gravele, akin to F. Gr?ve a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. Grouan gravel, W. Gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. Gravan stone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gravelling | <zoology> A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| graven | Of Grave. Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gravery | The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. "Either of picture or gravery and embossing." (Holland) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Graves | Robert James, Irish physician remembered for his description of exophthalmic goiter in 1835, 1796-1853. See: Graves' disease, Graves' ophthalmopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| graves' disease | Same as Basedow's disease. Origin: So called after Dr. Graves, of Dublin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Graves' ophthalmopathy | Exophthalmos caused by increased water content of retro-ocular orbital tissues; associated with thyroid disease, usually hyperthyroidism. Synonym: endocrine ophthalmopathy, Graves' orbitopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Graves' optic neuropathy | Visual dysfunction due to optic nerve compression in Graves' orbitopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Graves' orbitopathy | Exophthalmos caused by increased water content of retro-ocular orbital tissues; associated with thyroid disease, usually hyperthyroidism. Synonym: endocrine ophthalmopathy, Graves' orbitopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |