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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.

d or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. The grass blows from their graves to thy own. M. Arnold.

s of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

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

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

ature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. [U.S.]

orable in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Shak. -- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.

constriction. Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

pe; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [Obs.] The generous and gravest citizens. Shak.

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.

A digger of graves.

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

It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]

to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.] On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.