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Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.

hat gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller.

process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at. The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes. Denham.

Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [Obs.] The generous and gravest citizens. Shak.

The race of giants. [R.] Cotgrave.

A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.

eetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold…

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Sir T. Browne.

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.

That which is graved or carved. [R.] Skillful to . . . grave any manner of graving. 2 Chron. ii. 14.

To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, v., and cf. Groove.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood pain…

thology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave. And death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them. Rev. xx. 13 (Rev. Ver. ). Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. Acts ii. 31 (Rev. Ver.). And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in tormen…