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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 ]

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. [ 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 ]

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 ]