Gravedo

[From Lat. gravis, heavy.] ( Med.) A sense of cold, and oppre ion in the head; catarrh; coryza. Grav'el, n. [Fr. gravelle or gravèle; Lat. gravel a, a small stone, gravella, sand; probably corrupted from Lat. glare a, gravel.] The name given to aggregations of water-worn and rounded fragments of rocks, varying in size from a pea to a hen's egg. When the fragments are smaller, the deposit is sand; when larger, it is called shingles. Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than particles of sand, but often mixed with them, and found in sabulous soils. (Med.) See URINARY ORGANS, (DISEASES OF.) -v. a. To cover or pave with gravel; as, to gravel a garden-walk. -To stick in the sand; -hence, to clog; to embarra ; to check; to stop; to confuse; to puzzle. "Mat, who was here a little gravell'd , To 'd up his nose, and would have cavill'd."-Prior. -To hurt the foot of a horse, by gravel lodged under the shoe. Grave'le , a. Wanting a grave; unburied. "My brave Egyptians all,... lie gravele ."-Shaks. Grav'el Hill, in New Jersey. See BLAIR STOWN. Grav'el Hill, in Virginia , a P. O. of Bucking ham co. Grave lines, ( grav - leen ' ,) a fortified seaport of France, dep. Nord, at the mouth of the Aa, 12 m. S. W. of Dun- kerque. Manf . Liquors, with a considerable trade in fish and timber. Under Louis XIV. it was fortified by Vauban, but the harbor has become usele through neglect. Pop . 7,000 Gravel lin e , n . State or condition of being gravelly. Grav'elly, a . Full of gravel; abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. Grav'elly Landing, in New Jersey. See PORT Re- PUBLIC.