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A hind in the year of its age.

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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. 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