gravestone

A stone or slab laid over or erected near a grave, on which are written or cut the name, age, ., of the person there buried; a tombstone. "Timon, presently prepare thy grave: Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat Thy grave- stone daily." Shakesp.: Timon , iv. 3. †grave-wax, s. Adipocere (q. v.). grave-yard, s. An inclosed ground in which the dead are buried; a burial-ground; a cemetery. grāve, a . [Fr., from Lat. gravis heavy, grave; cogn. with Goth. kaurs =heavy; Gr. bar us ; Sansc. guru ; Sp. & Ital. grave .] I. Ordinary Language : *1. Lit .: Heavy; of weight. "His shield grave and great." -Chapman . 2. Figuratively : (1) Weighty; serious; important; momentous. "Gordon, however, positively refused to take on himself so grave a responsibility." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. (2) Important; of weight, credible. "The gravest of their own writers, and of strangers, do bear them witne ."-Grew: Cosmología Sacra . 3. Sedate; solemn; sober; serious. "Justice is grave and decorous." - Burke : On the French Revolution. 4. Serious; heavy; as, a grave charge. *5. Plain; staid; sedate; not gaudy; quiet; as, a grave dre . 6. Not sharp of sound; not acute. [ACCENT.] "The acute accent raising the voice and the grave depre ing it lower, and both having some emphasis- i.e., more vigorous pronunciation."- Holder. II. Music: 1. Deep in pitch; as, grave hexachord, the lowest hexachord in the Guidon i an system. 2. Slow in pace; solemnly. Crabb thus discriminates between grave , serious, and solemn: "Grave expre es more than serious; it does not merely bespeak the absence of mirth, but that heavine of mind which is displayed in all the movements of the body. A man may be grave in his walk, in his tone, in his gesture, in his looks, and all his exterior; he is serious only in his general air, his countenance, and demeanor. Solemn expre es more than either grave or serious ; like serious , it is employed not so much to characterize either the person or the thing: the judge pronounces the solemn sentence of condemnation in of stone, intermixed with sand, loam, clay, flints, . "Gravel of all usual sizes colored consists of flints the stand few pyritæ, and other mineral bodies, confusedly intermixed, and common sand."-Woodward. II. Technically : 1. Geol.: Gravel is formed by the action of water upon disintegrated portions of rock, which tend to be first blocks or bowlders, then pebbles, next gravel, and finally sand, if not even silt. The fragments of which it is composed vary from the size of a pea to that of a hen's egg. 2. Pathol .: The presence of minute concretions in the urine constitutes the affection known as the gravel. It is usually owing to the presence of uric acid, urates, oxalates, and phosphates. Among exceptional urinary calculi are carbonate of lime, cystine, xanthine, fatty and fibrinous concretions. The chief symptoms are dull, aching pains over the renal regions, extending to the thighs, frequent micturition, and the occasional appearance in the urine of blood, pus, epithelium, or unorganized sediments, chiefly uric acid and oxalates. "Most physicians doe highly commend their roots [asparagus] brused and taken in white wine, for to expell the stone and grauell." - P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xx., ch. x.