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Webster 1913 Edition

Tumulus

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Tu′mu-lus

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Tumuli

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.

[L., a mound, a sepulchral mound, probably from

tumere

to swell. Cf.

.]

An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.