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A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

To bury; also, to engrave. [Obs.] Gower.

Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.

See Burggrave.

To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.

Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.

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

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

To engrave. [R.] "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.

To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections. The work itself of the bases, was intergraven. 3 Kings vii. 28 (Douay version. )

A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.

Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

See Palsgrave.

A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of. -- Pho`to-en*grav"er (#), n.

In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. [Obs.] Fabyan.

To engrave anew.

To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. [Obs.] Fuller.

In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.