Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRAVE, v.t. [pret. graved; pp. graven or graved. Fr. graver; Sp. grabar; Sax. grafan; G. graben; D. graaven; Dan. graver; Sw. grafva; Arm. engraffi, engravi; Ir. grafadh, grafaim; W. criviaw, from rhiv; Gr. γραφω, to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape; Ch. and Syr. כרב, to plow. See Class Rb, No. 30.]

1. To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.] Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii.
2. To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image. Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image. Ex. xx.
3. To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.
4. To entomb. [Unusual.] Shak.