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n. A bravado; a boast. [ 1913 Webster ]

With so proud a strain
Of threats and bravings. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a defiant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching. [ 1913 Webster ]

A succession of cravings and satiety. L'Estrange.

-- Crav"ing*ly, adv. -- Crav"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a depraving manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Deprave: cf. L. pravitas crookedness, perverseness. ] The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism.

Syn. -- Corruption; vitiation; wickedness; vice; contamination; degeneracy. -- Depravity, Depravation, Corruption. Depravilty is a vitiated state of mind or feeling; as, the depravity of the human heart; depravity of public morals. Depravation points to the act or process of making depraved, and hence to the end thus reached; as, a gradual depravation of principle; a depravation of manners, of the heart, etc. Corruption is the only one of these words which applies to physical substances, and in reference to these denotes the process by which their component parts are dissolved. Hence, when figuratively used, it denotes an utter vitiation of principle or feeling. Depravity applies only to the mind and heart: we can speak of a depraved taste, or a corrupt taste; in the first we introduce the notion that there has been the influence of bad training to pervert; in the second, that there is a want of true principle to pervert; in the second, that there is a want of true principles to decide. The other two words have a wider use: we can speak of the depravation or the corruption of taste and public sentiment. Depravity is more or less open; corruption is more or less disguised in its operations. What is depraved requires to be reformed; what is corrupt requires to be purified. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Skr. Drāvi&dsdot_;a, prob. meaning, Tamil. ] (Ethnol.) A race of Hindustan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindu or Aryan invasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ From Skr. Drāvi&dsdot_;a, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India. ] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included. These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. one of the languages native to southern India; a Dravidian language.
Syn. -- Dravidian, Dravidian language. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

v. t. To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to throw into ecstasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ L. gravidus, fr. gravis heavy, loaded. See Grave, a. ] Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety; -- of animals as well as people. “ His gravid associate.” Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gravidatus, p. p. of gravidare to load, impregnate. See Gravid. ] Made pregnant; big. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gravidity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. graviditas. ] The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gravis heavy + gradus step. ] (Zool.) Slow-paced. -- n. One of the pachyderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gravis heavy + -meter: cf. F. gravimètre. ] (Physics) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight. -- Grav"i*met"ric*al*ly adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gravimetric analysis (Chem.), analysis in which the amounts of the constituents are determined by weight; -- in distinction from volumetric analysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) the measurement of specific gravity.
Syn. -- hydrometry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Grave to clean. ] The act of cleaning a ship's bottom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Graving dock. (Naut.) See under Dock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Grave to dig. ] 1. The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, especially by incision or in intaglio. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is graved or carved. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Skillful to . . . grave any manner of graving. 2 Chron. ii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Impression, as upon the mind or heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

New gravings upon their souls. Eikon Basilike [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gravitated p. pr. & vb. n. Gravitating ] [ Cf. F. graviter. See Gravity. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why does this apple fall to the ground? Because all bodies gravitate toward each other. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Politicians who naturally gravitate towards the stronger party. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. gravitation. See Gravity. ] 1. The act of gravitating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pysics) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Law of gravitation, that law in accordance with which gravitation acts, namely, that every two bodies or portions of matter in the universe attract each other with a force proportional directly to the quantity of matter they contain, and inversely to the squares of their distances. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physics) Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing to gravitate; tending to a center. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A theoretical gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles; the quantum of the gravitational field, having zero rest mass and a spin of 2. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n.; pl. Gravities [ L. gravitas, fr. gravis heavy; cf. F. gravité. See Grave, a., Grief. ] 1. The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sobriety of character or demeanor. “Men of gravity and learning.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of the place where they were uttered. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physics) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Center of gravity See under Center. --
Gravity battery, See Battery, n., 4. --
Specific gravity, the ratio of the weight of a body to the weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the standard or unit. This standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air for gases. Thus, 19, the specific gravity of gold, expresses the fact that, bulk for bulk, gold is nineteen times as heavy as water. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ingravidatus, p. p. of ingravidare to impregnate. See 1st In-, and Gravidated. ] To impregnate. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being pregnant or impregnated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. landgraviat. ] 1. The territory held by a landgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. landgräfin; cf. D. landgravin. ] The wife of a landgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wildflower (Mirabilis multiflora) having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from Southern California to Southern Colorado and into Mexico.
Syn. -- desert four o'clock, Colorado four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A leafy wildflower (Mirabilis longiflora) having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico.
Syn. -- sweet four o'clock, Mirabilis longiflora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. margraviat. ] The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. markgräfin: cf. F. margrafine. ] The wife of a margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The religious system of the Moravians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin. ] The consort or widow of a palsgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Photo- + engraving. ] The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pravitas, from pravus crooked, perverse. ] Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. “The pravity of the will.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To descend by gravity; to sink. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ravenous. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Raven. ] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. “Fowls of ravyne.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. & i. See Raven, v. t. & i. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See Ravish, and cf. Rapine, Raven prey. ] 1. A torrent of water. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. [ 1913 Webster ]