Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who carves or engraves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who carves or engraves; one whose profession it is to cut letters or figures in metal, stone, or other hard material: formerly applied also to a sculptor.
- noun A tool used for engraving; a burin; also, a sculptors' chisel.
- noun An instrument used for turning iron after it has been roughed out by the heel-tool.—
- noun A shaver, a tool wherewith “bowyers use to shave bows.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
- noun An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
burin - noun a
carver orengraver - adjective
comparative form ofgrave : moregrave
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tool used by an engraver
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Examples
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We are being told that we are in graver danger than ever, and that we must change our lives in drastic and inconvenient ways in order to be secure.
Boing Boing: November 10, 2002 - November 16, 2002 Archives 2002
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Jane came forth with her rosy morning face, her expression graver than of wont.
Will Warburton George Gissing 1880
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The more, therefore, an aristocracy calls to its aid its innate forces, -- its impenetrability, its high spirit, its power of haughty resistance, -- to deal with an epoch of expansion, the graver is the danger, the greater the certainty of explosion, the surer the aristocracy's defeat; for it is trying to do violence to nature instead of working along with it.
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855
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He scarce ever made his first Entrance in a Play but he was received with an involuntary Applause, not of Hands only, for those may be, and have often been partially prostituted and bespoken, but by a General Laughter which the very Sight of him provoked and Nature cou'd not resist; yet the louder the Laugh the graver was his Look upon it; and sure, the ridiculous Solemnity of his Features were enough to have set a whole Bench of Bishops into a Titter, cou'd he have been honour'd (may it be no Offence to suppose it) with such grave and right reverend Auditors.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan criticized it for "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel," while neglecting other parts of the world such as Darfur, which he termed a "graver" crisis.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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One of the flunkies is this clubkid who, as a zombie, is the unliving embodiment of "graver".
Black Rain of the Evil Dead Highlanders: Versus badger 2003
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"sobersides," as Mary Bertram sometimes called their graver discussions.
Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School L. T. Meade 1884
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Amplification, then, is a kind of graver affirmation, which by exciting feelings in the mind conciliates belief to one's assertion.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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After the wheel is mounted, it is better to turn it quite true by means of a watch-maker's "graver" or other suitable tool.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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Fox, then a 'graver's apprentice, to return with him to America.
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
whichbe commented on the word graver
Gothic raver.
June 27, 2009