Hearse

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hearse \Hearse\, v. t.
     To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were
     hearsed at my foot." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Hearse \Hearse\ (h[~e]rs), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
     A hind in the second year of its age. [Eng.] --Wright.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hearse \Hearse\ (h[~e]rs), n. [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.
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     2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic]
        "Underneath this marble hearse." --B. Johnson.
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              Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
                                                    --Fairfax
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              Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
        [Obs.]
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              Set down, set down your honorable load,
              It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. --Shak.
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     4. A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for
        conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hearse
       n : a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery;
           formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HEARSE, n.  Death's baby-carriage.