Word Meanings - RESURRECTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.

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• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• GRAVELLINESS
  State of being gravelly.
• GRAVERY
  The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.
• GRAVESTONE
  A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
• GRAVELLY
  Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
• GRAVEOLENT
  Having a rank smell. Boyle.
• DISSECTION
  1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially,
• GRAVENSTEIN
  A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
• GRAVEL-STONE
  A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
• GRAVECLOTHES
  The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
• GRAVER
  1. One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material. 2. An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.
• GRAVE
  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.
• GRAVELY
  In a grave manner.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• UNGRAVE
  To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• MARGRAVE
  march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title
• PALSGRAVE
  A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany. (more info) Hist.)
• -GRAVE
  A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.