brave | noun (n.) A brave person; one who is daring. |
| noun (n.) Specifically, an Indian warrior. |
| noun (n.) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. |
| noun (n.) A challenge; a defiance; bravado. |
| superlative (superl.) Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act. |
| superlative (superl.) Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous. |
| superlative (superl.) Making a fine show or display. |
| verb (v. t.) To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare. |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn; to make fine or showy. |
cave | noun (n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den. |
| noun (n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. |
| noun (n.) To make hollow; to scoop out. |
| noun (n.) A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. |
| verb (v. i.) To dwell in a cave. |
| verb (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. |
grave | noun (n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
| noun (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. |
| noun (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. |
| noun (n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. |
| noun (n.) To entomb; to bury. |
| noun (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. |
| superlative (superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. |
| superlative (superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. |
| superlative (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. |
| superlative (superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. |
| superlative (superl.) Slow and solemn in movement. |
| verb (v. t.) 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. |
| verb (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. |
heave | noun (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. |
| noun (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like. |
| noun (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log. |
| verb (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. |
| verb (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. |
| verb (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. |
| verb (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. |
| verb (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit. |
leave | noun (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. |
| noun (n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go. |
| verb (v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise; to levy. |
| verb (v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house. |
| verb (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed. |
| verb (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. |
| verb (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish. |
| verb (v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. |
| verb (v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators. |
| verb (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece. |
| verb (v. i.) To depart; to set out. |
| verb (v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off. |
octave | noun (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. |
| noun (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones. |
| noun (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself. |
| noun (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. |
| noun (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of eight; eight. |
pave | noun (n.) The pavement. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. |
rave | noun (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. |
| verb (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. |
| verb (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously. |
| verb (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense. |
| () imp. of Rive. |
save | noun (n.) The herb sage, or salvia. |
| adjective (a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. |
| adjective (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. |
| adjective (a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. |
| adjective (a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. |
| adjective (a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. |
| adjective (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. |
| adjective (a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. |
| verb (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. |
| (conj.) Except; unless. |
slave | noun (n.) See Slav. |
| noun (n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. |
| noun (n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. |
| noun (n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave. |
| noun (n.) An abject person; a wretch. |
| verb (v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. |
| verb (v. t.) To enslave. |
stave | noun (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. |
| noun (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc. |
| noun (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. |
| noun (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. |
| noun (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat. |
| noun (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off. |
| noun (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. |
| noun (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. |
| noun (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles. |
| noun (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. |
| verb (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments. |