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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hearse \Hearse\, v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] ``Would she were hearsed at my foot.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hearse \Hearse\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] --Wright. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hearse \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hearse n : a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage.
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