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

e or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

To call knave. [Obs.] Pope.

To leave or to be left. [Obs.] May.

tute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

One who bereaves.

To enslave. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.

A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

The quality of state or being brave.

The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

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

See Burggrave.

A dead human body; a corpse.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomain…