the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Rave
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To entomb; to bury.
(2):
(v. t.) 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.
(3):
(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
(4):
(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
(5):
(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; - said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
(6):
(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
(7):
(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
(8):
(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(9):
(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
(10):
(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.
(11):
(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
(12):
(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; - said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
(13):
(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rave'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rave.html. 1828.
