Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 41

Graved () of Grave

Graving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grave

Grave (n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

Grave (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

Grave (n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

Grave (n.) To entomb; to bury.

Grave (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

Graveclothes (n. pl.) The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

Gravedigger (n.) A digger of graves.

Gravedigger (n.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.

Gravel (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

Gravel (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.

Graveled (imp. & p. p.) of Gravel

Gravelled () of Gravel

Graveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gravel

Gravelling () of Gravel

Gravel (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

Gravel (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.

Gravel (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.

Gravel (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

Graveless (a.) Without a grave; unburied.

Graveling (n.) Alt. of Gravelling

Gravelling (n.) The act of covering with gravel.

Gravelling (n.) A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).

Graveling (n.) Alt. of Gravelling

Gravelling (n.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.

Gravelliness (n.) State of being gravelly.

Gravelly (a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

Gravel-stone (n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.

Gravely (adv.) In a grave manner.

Graven (v. t.) Carved.

Graveness (n.) The quality of being grave.

Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

Graveolence (n.) A strong and offensive smell; rancidity.

Graveolent (a.) Having a rank smell.

Graver (n.) One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

Graver (n.) An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.

Gravery (n.) The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving.

Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

Graves' disease () Same as Basedow's disease.

Gravestone (n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

Graveyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

Gravic (a.) Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.

Gravid (a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.

Gravidated (a.) Made pregnant; big.

Gravidation (n.) Gravidity.

Gravidity (n.) The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.

Gravigrade (a.) Slow-paced.

Gravigrade (n.) One of the pachyderms.

Gravimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.

Gravimetric (a.) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight.

Graving (n.) The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.

Graving (n.) The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio.

Graving (n.) That which is graved or carved.

Graving (n.) Impression, as upon the mind or heart.

Gravitated (imp. & p. p.) of Gravitate

Gravitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gravitate

Gravitate (v. i.) To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.

Gravitation (n.) The act of gravitating.

Gravitation (n.) That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight.

Gravitational (a.) Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units.

Gravitative (a.) Causing to gravitate; tending to a center.

Gravities (pl. ) of Gravity

Gravity (a.) The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.

Gravity (a.) Sobriety of character or demeanor.

Gravity (a.) Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.

Gravity (a.) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.

Gravity (a.) Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.

Gravies (pl. ) of Gravy

Gravy (n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

Gravy (n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

Gray (superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.

Gray (superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

Gray (superl.) Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

Gray (n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

Gray (n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

Grayback (n.) The California gray whale.

Grayback (n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

Grayback (n.) The dowitcher.

Grayback (n.) The body louse.

Graybeard (n.) An old man.

Grayfly (n.) The trumpet fly.

Grayhound (n.) See Greyhound.

Grayish (a.) Somewhat gray.

Graylag (n.) The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.

Grayling (a.) A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.

Grayling (a.) An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region.

Grayness (n.) The quality of being gray.

Gtraystone (n.) A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

Graywacke (n.) A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

Grazed (imp. & p. p.) of Graze

Grazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Graze

Graze (v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

Graze (v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

Graze (v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

Graze (v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

Graze (v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

Graze (v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.

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