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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