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Hearse

Hearse (hearse)
n.(h1913 webster dictionaryrs)
Hearse
[Etymol. uncertain.]
  1. A hind in the second year of its age.
    [Eng.] Wright.

Hearse

Hearse (hearse)
n.(h1913 webster dictionaryrs)
Hearse
[See Herse.]
  1. 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.
    [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.
  2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
    [Archaic] "Underneath this marble hearse." B. Johnson.

    Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax

    Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow.

  3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
    [Obs.]

    Set down, set down your honorable load,
    It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.     Shak.

  4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

Hearse

Hearse (hearse)
v. t.
Hearse
  1. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
    [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." Shak.












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