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A gap. [Obs.] Colgrave.

Engraved by a voltaic battary.

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.

or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

A student of the civil law at a university or college. R. Graves.

e secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

o come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton. -- To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. "They sh…

o, unto. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak.

duce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton.

Neat; spruce. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To excite or stir up. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To shut up; to inclose. [Obs.] The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave. Hooker.

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

dding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell.

e of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.