Grav"id (?), a. [L. gravidus, fr. gravis heavy, loaded. See Grave, a.] Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.

• pregnant; now used chiefly of animals, or metaphorically
       *1922: The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature — James Joyce, Ulysses
       *2004: One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning. — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas