Grave
Pronunciation: grāvd
v. t. | 1. | (Naut.) 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. |
a. | 1. | Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. |
| 2. | Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; - said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. |
| 3. | Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. |
| 4. | (Mus.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; - said of sound; as, a grave note or key. |
| 5. | Slow and solemn in movement. |
v. t. | 1. | |
| 1. | To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
| 2. | To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. |
| 3. | To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. |
| 4. | To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. |
| 5. | To entomb; to bury. |
v. i. | 1. | To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. |
n. | 1. | An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. |
GRAVE. A place where a dead body is interred.
2. The violation of the grave, by taking up the dead body, or stealing
the coffin or grave clothes, is a misdemeanor at common law. 1 Russ. on. Cr.
414. A singular case, illustrative of this subject, occurred in Louisiana. A
son, who inherited a large estate from his mother, buried her with all her
jewels, worth $2000; he then made a sale of all he inherited from his
mother, for $30,000. After this, a thief broke the grave and stole the
jewels, which, after his conviction, were left with the clerk of the court,
to be delivered to the owner. The son claimed them, and so did the purchaser
of the inheritance; it was held that the jewels, although buried with the
mother, belonged to the son, and, that they passed to the purchaser by a
sale of the whole inheritance. 6 Robins. L. R. 488. See Dead Body.
3. In New York, by statutory enactment, it is provided, that every
person who shall open a grave, or other place of interment, with intent, 1.
To remove the dead body of any human being, for the purpose of selling the
same, or for the purpose of dissection; or, 2. To steal the coffin, or any
part thereof, or the vestments or other articles interred with any dead
body, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment, in a state
prison, not exceeding two years, or in a county gaol, not exceeding six
months, or by fine not, exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or by both
such fine and imprisonment. Rev. Stat. part 4, tit. 5, art. 3, Sec. 15.
To dream that you are visiting a grave,
forewarns of a serious danger hovering over you.
Also it may mean that you need to dive into your own unconscious in search of an issue in which you thought had been put to rest.
Alternatively,
it represents something is about to be completed in your life.
To see an empty grave in your dream,
symbolizes disappointments and loss of friends.
To dream that you are digging a grave,
denotes some nervousness and uneasiness over some undertaking.
To see a grave decorated with white flowers in your dream,
signifies a black cloud looming over any pleasure you may enjoy.
abject,
abominable,
acute,
afflictive,
agonizing,
annihilation,
arch,
aristocratic,
arrant,
assemble,
atrocious,
august,
autolithograph,
awe-inspiring,
awful,
bane,
baritone,
barrow,
base,
bass,
be a printmaker,
beehive tomb,
beggarly,
biological death,
biting,
black,
blackish,
bleak,
bone house,
book,
boundary stone,
box grave,
brass,
burial,
burial chamber,
burial mound,
bust,
cairn,
calendar,
carve,
cast,
catacomb,
catacombs,
catalog,
cenotaph,
cessation of life,
chalk,
chalk up,
character,
charnel house,
chase,
check in,
cheesy,
chisel,
chronicle,
cist,
cist grave,
clinical death,
column,
comprehensive,
considerable,
contemptible,
contralto,
courtly,
cramping,
crease,
cribble,
critical,
cromlech,
cross,
crosshatch,
crossing the bar,
crucial,
cruel,
crummy,
crypt,
cup,
curtains,
cut,
cyclolith,
dangerous,
dark,
dark-colored,
darkish,
darksome,
deadly,
death,
death knell,
debased,
debt of nature,
decease,
decorous,
deep,
deep six,
deep-echoing,
deep-pitched,
deep-toned,
deepmouthed,
degraded,
demise,
demure,
departure,
depraved,
despicable,
destructive,
dignified,
dire,
dirty,
disgusting,
dismal,
dissolution,
distressing,
docket,
dokhma,
dolmen,
doom,
dour,
dreadful,
drear,
drearisome,
dreary,
drive,
dusk,
dusky,
dying,
ebb of life,
elevated,
enchase,
end,
end of life,
ending,
engrave,
enroll,
enscroll,
enter,
etch,
eternal rest,
excruciating,
execrable,
exhaustive,
exit,
expiration,
extinction,
extinguishment,
fatal,
fateful,
fell,
file,
fill out,
final summons,
finger of death,
flagrant,
footstone,
formal,
formidable,
foul,
found,
frowning,
full,
fulsome,
funebrial,
funereal,
furrow,
gloomy,
gnawing,
going,
going off,
grand,
gravestone,
gray,
great,
grievous,
grim-faced,
grim-visaged,
griping,
groove,
gross,
hammer,
hand of death,
hard,
harrowing,
harsh,
hatch,
headstone,
heavy,
heinous,
hoarstone,
hollow,
horrible,
house of death,
hurtful,
hurting,
impanel,
impress,
imprint,
incise,
inculcate,
index,
infix,
inscribe,
inscription,
insculpture,
insert,
inspiring,
instill,
intense,
irresistible,
jaws of death,
jot down,
killing,
kingly,
knell,
last debt,
last home,
last muster,
last rest,
last roundup,
last sleep,
leaving life,
line,
list,
lithograph,
little,
lofty,
log,
long home,
long-faced,
lordly,
loss of life,
low,
low green tent,
low house,
low-down,
low-pitched,
lumpen,
magisterial,
main,
majestic,
major,
make a memorandum,
make a note,
make an entry,
make out,
make prints,
making an end,
mangy,
mark,
mark down,
marker,
mastaba,
matriculate,
mausoleum,
mean,
measly,
megalith,
memento,
memorial,
memorial arch,
memorial column,
memorial statue,
memorial stone,
menhir,
mighty,
minute,
miserable,
model,
moderate,
mold,
monolith,
monstrance,
monstrous,
monument,
mound,
moving,
mummy chamber,
murderous,
narrow house,
necrology,
nefarious,
nigrescent,
no-nonsense,
noble,
note,
note down,
obelisk,
obituary,
obnoxious,
odious,
ossuarium,
ossuary,
painful,
paltry,
paroxysmal,
parting,
passage grave,
passing,
passing away,
passing over,
perilous,
perishing,
petty,
piercing,
pillar,
pit,
pivotal,
place upon record,
plaque,
plenary,
poignant,
poky,
poll,
ponderous,
poor,
portentous,
post,
post up,
pound,
powerful,
pressing,
princely,
print,
prize,
pungent,
put down,
put in writing,
put on paper,
put on tape,
pyramid,
queenly,
quietus,
racking,
rank,
record,
reduce to writing,
regal,
register,
release,
reliquary,
remembrance,
reptilian,
rest,
resting place,
reward,
ribbon,
rostral column,
royal,
sad,
saturnine,
scabby,
score,
scrape,
scratch,
scrubby,
scruffy,
sculp,
sculpt,
sculpture,
scummy,
scurvy,
sentence of death,
sepulcher,
sepulchral,
sepulture,
set down,
severe,
shabby,
shades of death,
shadow of death,
shaft,
shaft grave,
sharp,
shoddy,
shooting,
shrine,
sleep,
small,
sober-minded,
sobersided,
solder,
somatic death,
sombrous,
spasmatic,
spasmic,
spasmodic,
squalid,
stabbing,
stamp,
stately,
statuesque,
stela,
stinging,
stipple,
stone,
stone-faced,
straight-faced,
strong,
stupa,
sublime,
summons of death,
swart,
swarthy,
tablet,
tabulate,
take down,
tape,
tape-record,
temperate,
terrible,
testimonial,
thoughtful,
tomb,
tombstone,
tool,
tope,
tormenting,
torturous,
total,
tower of silence,
triste,
trophy,
tumulus,
ugly,
unmentionable,
unsmiling,
urgent,
vault,
venerable,
videotape,
vile,
weariful,
wearisome,
weary,
weighty,
weld,
worthy,
wretched,
write,
write down,
write in,
write out,
write up