English

Funeral carriage

Noun

hearse ‎(plural hearses)

1. A hind in the second year of her age.
2. 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.
3. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
   • Ben Jonson

     underneath this marble hearse

   • Fairfax

     Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.

   • Longfellow

     who lies beneath this sculptured hearse

4. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
   • Shakespeare

     Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.

5. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

Translations

Verb

hearse ‎(third-person singular simple present hearses, present participle hearsing, simple past and past participle hearsed)

1. (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

References

• hearse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913