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v. Alternative form of hearse.

n. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.

n. See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.

n. A funeral ceremonial.

v. Same as hearse, v. t.

n. An obsolete spelling of hearse in various senses.

n. A framework, composed of bars or rods, and used for any purpose; a grating.

n. In fortification, specifically— A portcullis.

n. A frame armed with spikes, used for chevauxde-frise, and laid in the way or in breaches, with the points up, to prevent or obstruct the advance of an enemy.

n. In heraldry, a charge resembling a harrow, and blazoned herse or harrow indifferently.

An obsolete variant of hearse.

n. A genus of sphingid moths.

n. A genus of birds.

n. A genus of crustaceans.

n. A genus of mollusks.

"The name herse was then applied to the draped catafalque or platform upon which the candles stood and the coffin rested, not as now the word hearse to a carriage for the conveyance of the dead."

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