Deeply serious and sombre; grave.
Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.
Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.
Inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive.
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
A bird, the black tern.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
The hinder part of anything.
The post of management or direction.
The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.