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sel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

A digger of graves.

e kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.

Without a grave; unburied.

The act of covering with gravel.

State of being gravelly.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

In a grave manner.

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.

The quality of being grave. His sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. Shak.

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

A strong and offensive smell; rancidity. [R.] Bailey.

Having a rank smell. [R.] Boyle.

One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.

The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

Same as Basedow's disease.

A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.