To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to
sculpture; as, to grave an image.

To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

Not acute or sharp; low; deep; – said of sound; as, a
grave note or key.

To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard
substance; to engrave.

Slow and solemn in movement.

Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave
color; a grave face.

Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

To clean, as a vessel’s bottom, of barnacles, grass,
etc., and pay it over with pitch; – so called because graves or
greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate;
serious; – said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment,
character, influence, etc.

To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.