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.-of great weight; heavy; ponderous.-of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.-not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.-not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.-slow and solemn in movement.-to dig. [obs.] chaucer.-to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.-to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.-to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.-to entomb; to bury.-to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.-an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. hence: death; destruction.