Grave

grav, v. [imp. graved (gravd), p.p. gravek or graved; graving.] To carve or cut, engrave; to give shape to, by eutting with a chisel. (Naut.) To clean, as a ship's bottom, by burning off filth, gra , etc., and paying over with pitch, — v. To write or delineate on nard substances; to practice engraving. — n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; tomb; sepulcher death or destruction, pi. The sediment of melted tallow. [AS. grafan. to dig, engrave, D. graven, Ic. grafa, to dig, Gr. graphein, to scratch, engrave, write, L. scribere, to write grove, groove, grammar, graphic, prob. carve.] — Grav'er, n. One who, etc. a sculptor; an engraving tool, burin, q. v. a tool for turning metals. — GraVing, n. Act of, etc. thing graved or carved; act of cleaning a ship's bottom impre ion on the mind, heart, etc. — Grav'ing-dock, n. A dry dock, in which ship's bottoms are cleaned, etc. — Grave'- clothes, n. pi. Clothes which the dead are interred. stone, n. A memorial stone set by a grave. —yard, n. A yard for the interment of the dead; cemetery.