<blockquote>Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and <b>grave</b> on them the names of the children of Israel. <i>Ex. xxviii. 9.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; <as>as, to <ex>grave</ex> an image</as>.</def>
<blockquote>With gold men may the hearte <b>grave</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>4.</b> <def>To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.</def>
<blockquote>O! may they graven in thy heart remain. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>5.</b> <def>To entomb; to bury.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Chaucer.</i>
<blockquote>Lie full low, <b>graved</b> in the hollow ground. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
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<hw>Grave</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.</def>
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<hw>Grave</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>gr?f</ets>, fr. <ets>grafan</ets> to dig; akin to D. & OS. <ets>graf</ets>, G. <ets>grab</ets>, Icel. <ets>gr\'94f</ets>, Russ. <ets>grob'</ets> grave, coffin. See <er>Grave</er> to carve.]</ety> <def>An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.</def>
<blockquote>He bad lain in the <b>grave</b> four days. <i>John xi. 17.</i></blockquote>
<cs><col>Grave wax</col>, <cd>adipocere</cd>.</cs>
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<hw>Grave"clothes`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.</def>
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<hw>Grave"dig`ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A digger of graves.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <cref>Burying beetle</cref>, under <er>Bury</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def>
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<hw>Grav"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>gravele</ets>, akin to F. <ets>gr?ve</ets> a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. <ets>grouan</ets> gravel, W. <ets>gro</ets> coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. <ets>gr&amac;van</ets> stone.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.</def>
<cs><col>Gravel powder</col>, <cd>a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.</cd></cs>
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<hw>Grav"el</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Graveled</er> <tt>(?)</tt> or <er>Gravelled</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Graveling</er> or <er>Gravelling</er>.]</wordforms>
<p><b>1.</b> <def>To cover with gravel; <as>as, to gravel a walk</as>.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.</def>
<blockquote>When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they <b>graveled</b> the ship. <i>Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version).</i></blockquote>
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