Thesaurus: hearse

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1. n. A hind in the year of its age.
2. 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.
3. n. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
4. n. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
5. n. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
6. v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
7. n. a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
8. A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright. 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. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." Shak.
9. A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright.
10. n:100 n. a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle