grave

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
• noun A place of burial.
• noun Death or extinction.
• transitive verb To sculpt or carve; engrave.
• transitive verb To stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently.
• adjective Requiring serious thought; momentous.
• adjective Fraught with danger or harm.
• adjective Dignified and somber in conduct or character: synonym: serious.
• adjective Somber or dark in hue.
• adjective Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
• adjective Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.
• transitive verb To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In music, to render grave, as a note or tone.
• To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning or scraping off seaweeds, barnacles, etc., and paying it over with pitch.
• . Having weight; heavy; ponderous.
• Solemn; sober; serious: opposed to light or jovial: as, a man of a grave deportment.
• Plain; not gay or showy: as, grave colors.
• Important; momentous; weighty; having serious import.
• In acoustics, deep; low in pitch: opposed to acute.
• noun The grave accent; also, the sign of the grave accent (`).
• noun A count; a prefect: in Germany and the Low Countries— formerly, a person holding some executive or judicial office: usually in composition with a distinctive term, as landgrave, margrave (*mark-grave), burgrave (*burg-grave), dike-grave, etc.; now merely a title of rank or honor.
• In music, slow; solemn: noting passages to be so rendered.
• noun An excavation in the earth, now especially one in which a dead body is or is to be buried: a place for the interment of a corpse; hence, a tomb; a sepulcher.
• noun Figuratively, any scene or occasion of utter loss, extinction, or disappearance: as, speculation is the grave of many fortunes.
• noun Sometimes, in the authorized version of the Old Testament, the abode of the dead; Hades.
• To dig; delve.
• . To bury; entomb.
• To cut or incise, as letters or figures, on stone or other hard substance with an edged or pointed tool; engrave.
• To carve; sculpture; form or shape by cutting with a tool: as, to grave an image.
• . To make an impression upon; impress deeply.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb (Naut.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
• intransitive verb To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
• noun An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
• noun adipocere.
• transitive verb To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
• transitive verb To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
• transitive verb To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
• transitive verb To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
• transitive verb obsolete To entomb; to bury.
• adjective obsolete Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
• adjective Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.
• adjective Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain.
• adjective Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound.
• adjective Slow and solemn in movement.
• adjective (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.