HEARSES

Noun

hearses

plural of hearse

Verb

hearses

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearse

Anagrams

• earshes, sharees

Source: Wiktionary


HEARSE

Hearse, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Definition: A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright.

Hearse, n. Etym: [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, v. t.

Definition: To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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