5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

Shak.

Grave, v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of

incised lines; to practice engraving.

Grave, n. [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab,

Icel. grˆf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.] 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.

Grave"clothes` (&?;), n. pl. The clothes or dress in which the dead are

interred.

Grave"dig`ger (?), n. 1. A digger of graves.

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