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adj. 1. 1 made more severe or intense, especially in law; as, aggravated assault.
Syn. -- intensified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 incited, especially deliberately, to anger. aggravated by passive resistance
Syn. -- provoked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an aggravating manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. aggravatio: cf. F. aggravation. ] 1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exaggerated representation. [ 1913 Webster ]

By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Provocation; irritation. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to aggravate. -- n. That which aggravates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. be- + grave; akin to G. begraben, Goth. bigraban to dig a ditch around. ] To bury; also, to engrave. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. burggraf; burg fortress + graf count: cf. D. burggraaf, F. burgrave. See Margrave. ] (Germany) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] See Burggrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. degravare, degravatum, to make heavy. See Grave, a. ] The act of making heavy. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of engraving by means of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + grave a tomb. Cf. Engrave to carve. ] To deposit in the grave; to bury. [ Obs. ] “Their corses to engrave.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Engraved p. p. Engraved or Engraven p. pr. & vb. n. Engraving. ] [ Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver. ] 1. To cut in; to make by incision. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh
He did engrave. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver. [ 1913 Webster ]

Engrave principles in men's minds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Engraved work. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The trade or work of an engraver. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Gravamina E. Gravamens [ L., fr. gravare to load, burden, fr. gravis heavy, weighty. See Grave, a. ] (Law) The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Graver superl. Gravest. ] [ F., fr. L. gravis heavy; cf. It. & Sp. grave heavy, grave. See Grief. ] 1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His shield grave and great. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) (a) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

(b) Slow and solemn in movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grave accent. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.

Syn. -- Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important. -- Grave, Sober, Serious, Solemn. Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay or flighty; as, sober thought. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to jocose or sportive; as, serious and important concerns. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc., which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity of feeling or vivacity of manner; as, a qrave remark; qrave attire. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Graved p. p. Graven r Graved; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving. ] [ AS. grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D. graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw. gräfva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to write, E. graphic. Cf. Grave, n., Grove, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To dig. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath graven and digged up a pit. Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. [ 1913 Webster ]

With gold men may the hearte grave. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. [ 1913 Webster ]

O! may they graven in thy heart remain. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To entomb; to bury. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. gröf, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He bad lain in the grave four days. John xi. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grave wax, adipocere. [ 1913 Webster ]

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A digger of graves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gravele, akin to F. gr?ve a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. grouan gravel, W. gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. grāvan stone. ] 1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Graveled r Gravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship. Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version). [ 1913 Webster ]

Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a grave; unburied.

n. State of being gravelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

or , n. 1. The act of covering with gravel. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

or , n. (Zool.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a grave manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Grave, v. t. Carved. [ 1913 Webster ]

Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.” Ex. xx. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being grave. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called because it came from Gravenstein, a place in Schleswig. Downing. ] A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. graveolentia: cf. F. gravéolence. See Graveolent. ] A strong and offensive smell; rancidity. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. graveolens; gravis heavy + olere to smell. ] Having a rank smell. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called after Dr. Graves, of Dublin. ] Same as Basedow's disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]