grave

grave has 22 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
• v. t.. 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.
• superl.. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
• superl.. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
• superl.. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
• superl.. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
• superl.. Slow and solemn in movement.
• n.. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
• n.. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
• n.. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
• n.. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
• n.. To entomb; to bury.