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A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

enerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

"Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.

by the arm; to take up in one's arms. [Obs.] And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him. Shak. Arm your prize; I know you will not lose him. Two N. Kins.

In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thess. iv. 13.

A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

or. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] Cotgrave.

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. [In this sense, commonly written bass.]

Deep or grave in tone. Bass clef (Mus.), the character placed at the beginning of the staff containing the bass part of a musical composition. [See Illust. under Clef.] -- Bass voice, a deepsounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

pen wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.…