Hearse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A vehicle for conveying a coffin to a church or cemetery.
  • n. Roman Catholic Church A triangular candelabrum used at Tenebrae during Holy Week.
  • n. A framelike structure over a coffin or tomb on which to hang epitaphs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hind in the second year of its age.
  • n. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
  • n. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
  • n. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
  • n. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
  • v. To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A hind in the second year of its age.
  • n. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
  • n. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
  • n. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
  • n. A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.
  • v. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A canopy, usually of openwork or trellis, set. over a bier, or more rarely over a permanent tomb, and used especially to support candles which were lighted at times of ceremony.
  • n. A bier; a bier with a coffin.
  • n. A carriage for conveying a dead person to the grave. The usual modern form has an oblongroofed body, often with glass sides, and a door at the back for the insertion of the coffin.
  • n. A temporary monument erected over a grave.
  • n. A dirge or threnody, or a solemn recital or chant.
  • n. In heraldry, a charge resembling a portcullis or a harrow.
  • To put on or in a hearse.
  • A Scotch form of hoarse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    grave   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    entomb    catafalque    enhearse    inhearse    bury    shroud   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    coerce    converse    curse    disburse    disperse   
    Same Context
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