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Hearse

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Hearse has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Hearsen. [Etymol. uncertain.].
     A hind in the second year of its age.  Wright.  [1913 Webster]
Hearsen. [See Herse.].
  •  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.  Oxf. Gloss.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.  B. Johnson.  [1913 Webster]
    "Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows."  [1913 Webster]
    "Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.  [1913 Webster]
    "Set down, set down your honorable load,
    It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.  [1913 Webster]
Hearsev. t. 
     To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Hearse, n. a vehicle for conveying the coffin at a funeral.

Etymology
ME f. OF herse harrow f. med.L herpica ult. f. L hirpex -icis large rake

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Hearse

n. Death's baby-carriage.

ROGET THESAURUS

Hearse

Interment

N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.

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