Jack watched him from his place by the window, his expression grave but cautious.Īll, that is, with the exception of Spock, who nevertheless rose, hands clasped behind his back, his expression grave but managing nevertheless to convey the fact that, although he did not follow the custom, he agreed with the sentiment. Your temperate drinker treads on slippery ground for as I verily believe that alcohol is one of the most active imps for the destruction of both body and soul, the temperate drinker is too often gradually led on by the fiend, until the habit becomes fixed and inveterate and he drags a galling chain, each day riveted more strongly, and the poor wretch hourly becomes more callous to shame, until he sinks into the grave - _the drunkard's grave_. noun An excavation in the earth as a place of burial also, any place of interment a tomb a sepulcher.Īnd when he has tracked and dogged a man to his mother's grave - _his mother's grave_ - he can dine, he can laugh, he can go to the theatre!.adjective (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.adjective Not acute or sharp low deep - said of sound.adjective Not light or gay solemn sober plain.adjective Of importance momentous weighty influential sedate serious - said of character, relations, etc.adjective obsolete Of great weight heavy ponderous.transitive verb obsolete To entomb to bury.transitive verb To impress deeply (on the mind) to fix indelibly.transitive verb To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel to sculpture.transitive verb To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance to engrave.noun An excavation in the earth as a place of burial also, any place of interment a tomb a sepulcher.intransitive verb To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines to practice engraving.transitive verb (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.To make an impression upon impress deeply.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. To carve sculpture form or shape by cutting with a tool: as, to grave an image.To cut or incise, as letters or figures, on stone or other hard substance with an edged or pointed tool engrave.noun Sometimes, in the authorized version of the Old Testament, the abode of the dead Hades.noun Figuratively, any scene or occasion of utter loss, extinction, or disappearance: as, speculation is the grave of many fortunes.noun An excavation in the earth, now especially one in which a dead body is or is to be buried: a place for the interment of a corpse hence, a tomb a sepulcher.In music, slow solemn: noting passages to be so rendered.noun A count a prefect: in Germany and the Low Countries- formerly, a person holding some executive or judicial office: usually in composition with a distinctive term, as landgrave, margrave (* mark-grave), burgrave (* burg-grave), dike-grave, etc.noun The grave accent also, the sign of the grave accent (`).In acoustics, deep low in pitch: opposed to acute.Important momentous weighty having serious import.Plain not gay or showy: as, grave colors.Solemn sober serious: opposed to light or jovial: as, a man of a grave deportment.To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning or scraping off seaweeds, barnacles, etc., and paying it over with pitch.In music, to render grave, as a note or tone.transitive verb To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.adjective Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.adjective Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.adjective Dignified and somber in conduct or character: synonym: serious.adjective Requiring serious thought momentous.transitive verb To stamp or impress deeply fix permanently.transitive verb To sculpt or carve engrave.noun An excavation for the interment of a corpse.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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