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Word Meanings - UNGRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.

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  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • 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.
  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • FULLER
    One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
  • EXHUME
    To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.
  • 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.
  • DISINTEREST
    Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
  • GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
    1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
  • GRAVES' DISEASE
    See DISEASE
  • RAISER
    One who, or that which, raises .
  • GRAVELESS
    Without a grave; unburied.
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • DISINTERMENT
    The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
  • GRAVELLINESS
    State of being gravelly.
  • REMOVED
    1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
  • GRAVERY
    The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • WILDGRAVE
    A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
  • PALGRAVE
    See PALSGRAVE
  • FRAISE
    A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
  • PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
    In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
  • PRAISER
    1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
  • FRAISED
    Fortified with a fraise.
  • BRAISE; BRAIZE
    A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
  • INGRAVE
    To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
  • OVERPRAISE
    To praise excessively or unduly.

 

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