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Word Meanings - RESURRECTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.

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  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • GRAVEL
    A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
  • GRAVEN
    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.
  • GRAVEYARD
    A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
  • GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
    1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
  • GRAVES' DISEASE
    See DISEASE
  • GRAVELESS
    Without a grave; unburied.
  • GRAVELLINESS
    State of being gravelly.
  • GRAVERY
    The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.
  • GRAVESTONE
    A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
  • GRAVELLY
    Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
  • GRAVEOLENT
    Having a rank smell. Boyle.
  • DISSECTION
    1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially,
  • GRAVENSTEIN
    A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
  • GRAVEL-STONE
    A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
  • GRAVECLOTHES
    The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
  • GRAVER
    1. One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material. 2. An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.
  • GRAVE
    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.
  • GRAVELY
    In a grave manner.
  • WILDGRAVE
    A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
  • PALGRAVE
    See PALSGRAVE
  • PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
    In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
  • INGRAVE
    To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
  • UNGRAVE
    To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.
  • ENGRAVEMENT
    1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
  • MARGRAVE
    march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title
  • PALSGRAVE
    A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany. (more info) Hist.)
  • -GRAVE
    A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.

 

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