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Webster 1913 Edition


Inhume

In-hume′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inhumed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Inhuming
.]
[Cf. F.
inhumer
. See
Inhumate
.]
1.
To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
Inhume
the natives in their native plain.
Pope.
2.
To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inhume

INHU'ME

,
Verb.
T.
[L. inhumo, humo, to bury.]
1.
To bury; to inter; to deposit in the earth, as a dead body.
2.
To digest in a vessel surrounded with warm earth.