 
		
		Definition of grave:
		
		
		(adj) :
		
		of great weight; heavy; ponderous; of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc
		
								
				"his shield grave and great. --Chapman."
			
			
	
		
		
		(n) :
		
		an accent used in French, Italian and other languages. ? is an e with a grave accent; an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. 
Hence: 
Death; 
destruction
		 
								
				"he had lain in the grave four days. --John 
XI.,17."
			
		
		(v) :
		
		to dig. (
Obs.) Chaucer; to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave
		
 
								
				"he hath graven and digged up a pit. --
Ps. VII 16 (Book of Prayer)."