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1,185 words match “RAVE”

ENGRAVEMENT n. 2 definitions
Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.
ENGRAVER n.
One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
ENGRAVERY n.
The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
EXTRAVENATE a.
Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.
EXTRAVERSION n.
The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.
GRAVE v. 12 definitions
el's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
GRAVECLOTHES n.
The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
GRAVEDIGGER n. 2 definitions
A digger of graves.
GRAVEL n. 6 definitions
kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
GRAVEL-STONE n.
A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
GRAVELESS a.
Without a grave; unburied.
GRAVELING; GRAVELLING n. 3 definitions
The act of covering with gravel.
GRAVELLINESS n.
State of being gravelly.
GRAVELLY a.
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
GRAVELY adv.
In a grave manner.
GRAVEN p.
Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
GRAVENESS n.
The quality of being grave. His sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. Shak.
GRAVENSTEIN n.
A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
GRAVEOLENCE n.
A strong and offensive smell; rancidity. [R.] Bailey.
GRAVEOLENT a.
Having a rank smell. [R.] Boyle.
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