In*hume" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inhuming.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.]

1.

To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.

2.

To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

 

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