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.