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tomb |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tomb \Tomb\,, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tombed}; p. pr & vb n. {Tombing}.] To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb. I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. --Chapman. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tomb \Tomb\, n. [OE. tombe, toumbe F. tombe, LL tumba, fr Gr ? a tomb, grave; perhaps akin to L. tumulus a mound. Cf {Tumulus}.] 1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. --Shak. 2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. ``In tomb of marble stones.'' --Chaucer. 3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. --Shak. {Tomb bat} (Zo["o]l.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus {Taphozous} which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species ({T. perforatus}). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tomb n : a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave" [syn: {grave}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them the famous Egyptologist, Dr Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
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