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Definition: -GRAVE |
-GRAVE1. A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave. |
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Satire | GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered, A rustic standing near, I said: "He cannot hear it blowing!" "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going." "Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!" "Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'." I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." Pobeter Dunko. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Grave Among the ancient Hebrews graves were outside of cities in the open field (Luke 7:12; John 11:30). Kings (1 Kings 2:10) and prophets (1 Sam. 25:1) were generally buried within cities. Graves were generally grottoes or caves, natural or hewn out in rocks (Isa. 22:16; Matt. 27:60). There were family cemeteries (Gen. 47:29; 50:5; 2 Sam. 19:37). Public burial-places were assigned to the poor (Jer. 26:23; 2 Kings 23:6). Graves were usually closed with stones, which were whitewashed, to warn strangers against contact with them (Matt. 23:27), which caused ceremonial pollution (Num. 19:16). There were no graves in Jerusalem except those of the kings, and according to tradition that of the prophetess Huldah. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: -GRAVE |
| Etymologies containing "-GRAVE": Graf. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grave. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-v" | |
-1 letter: ager, aver, gave, gear, rage, rave, vera. | |
-2 letters: age, are, ave, ear, era, erg, gae, gar, rag, reg, rev, var, veg. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-v" | |
+1 letter: garvey, graved, gravel, graven, graver, graves, greave, ravage, regave, rivage, vaguer. | |
+2 letters: avenger, average, engrave, forgave, garveys, gravels, gravely, gravers, gravest, gravies, gravure, greaved, greaves, overage, ravaged, ravager, ravages, reaving, rivages, savager, sevruga, verglas, vinegar, virgate, vorlage, voyager. | |
+3 letters: aggrieve, avengers, averaged, averages, averring, averting, beverage, burgrave, coverage, engraved, engraver, engraves, ergative, gravamen, graveled, gravelly, gravidae, gravures, grievant, hangover, havering, lawgiver, leverage, mangrove, margrave, overaged, overages, overglad, overgoad, overhang, ravagers, raveling, ravening, ravigote, repaving, salvager, savagery, sevrugas, stravage, travelog, vagaries, venogram, verbiage, vicarage, villager, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, viragoes, virgates, vorlages, voyagers, voyageur, vulgarer, wavering. | |
+4 letters: adverting, aggravate, aggrieved, aggrieves, almsgiver, averagely, averaging, beavering, bereaving, beverages, burgraves, caregiver, caverning, clavering, coverages, cravening, depraving, engravers, engraving, everglade, grapevine, gravamens, graveless, graveling, gravelled, graveness, graveside, graveyard, gravitate, gravities, grievance, grievants, hangovers, laveering, lawgivers, leveraged, leverages, mangroves, margraves, marveling, overawing, overeager, overglaze, overgoads, overgraze, overhangs, overlarge, palsgrave, pervading, purgative, quavering, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, ravigotes, reavowing, reengrave, reshaving, revaluing, revamping, revealing, reweaving, salvagers, scavenger, slavering, stravaged, stravages, traveling, travelogs, unaverage, variegate, venograms, verbiages, verglases, vicarages, viceregal, villagers, villagery, vinegared, vintagers, voyageurs, vulgarest, vulgarise, vulgarize. | |
+5 letters: aggravated, aggravates, aggressive, aggrieving, almsgivers, caregivers, caregiving, changeover, crevassing, derogative, enervating, engravings, everglades, figurative, forgivable, galvanizer, generative, governable, governance, grapevines, gravelling, gravesides, gravestone, graveyards, gravimeter, gravimetry, gravitases, gravitated, gravitates, grievances, harvesting, invigorate, leveraging, margravate, margravine, marvelling, overacting, overbaking, overcharge, overdaring, overdosage, overeating, overglazes, overgoaded, overgrazed, overgrazes, overhating, overlading, overlaying, overmanage, overpaying, overrating, oversaving, overslaugh, overtaking, overtaxing, palavering, palsgraves, prevailing, purgatives, ravagement, ravellings, reavailing, reengraved, reengraves, regulative, reinvading, renovating, revegetate, savageries, scavengers, starveling, stravaiged, subaverage, travelling, travelogue, traversing, unraveling, unwavering, vagrancies, variegated, variegates, variegator, vegetarian, velarizing, venerating, venography, vernissage, vinegarish, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes, waveringly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)2D 47 52 41 56 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00101101 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)- G R A V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)002D 0047 0052 0041 0056 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)154152355639 |
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