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<blockquote>Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be <b>graveled</b>; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. <i>Camden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>When you were <b>graveled</b> for lack of matter. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The physician was so <b>graveled</b> and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. <i>Sir T. North.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.</def>

<h1>Graveless</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grave"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without a grave; unburied.</def>

<mhw><h1>Graveling, or Gravelling</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grav"el*ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, or <hw>Grav"el*ling</hw></mhw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of covering with gravel.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).</def>

<mhw><h1>Graveling, or Gravelling</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grav"el*ing</hw>, or <hw>Grav"el*ling</hw></mhw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.</def>

<h1>Gravelliness</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grav"el*li*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State of being gravelly.</def>

<h1>Gravelly</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grav"el*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; <as>as, a <ex>gravelly</ex> soil</as>.</def>

<h1>Gravel-stone</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grav"el-stone"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.</def>

<h1>Gravely</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grave"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a grave manner.</def>

<h1>Graven</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grav"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> of <er>Grave</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>Carved.</def>

<cs><col>Graven image</col>, <cd>an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any <i>graven image</i>." <i>Ex. xx. 4</i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Graveness</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Grave"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being grave.</def>

<blockquote>His sables and his weeds, Importing health and <b>graveness</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gravenstein</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 647 this page badly done>

<hw>Gra"ven*stein"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[So called because it came from Gravenstein, a place in Schleswig. Downing.]</ety> <def>A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.</def>

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