Hearse (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]

A hind in the year of its age.

[Eng.]

Wright.

 

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Hearse (?), 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.

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.

 

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Hearse, v. t.

To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

[Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot."

Shak.

 

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