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. [Obs.] Chaucer. Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. Shak.
GRAVE
Grave, v. i.
Defn: To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
GRAVE
Grave, n. Etym: [AS. grf, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf,
G. grab, Icel. gröf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Defn: An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any
place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
He bad lain in the grave four days. John xi. 17.
Grave wax, adipocere.
GRAVECLOTHES
Grave"clothes` (, n. pl.
Defn: The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.