Definition of Hearse

Pronunciation: hẽrs
n.1.A hind in the second year of its age.
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.
2.A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
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.
Set down, set down your honorable load,
It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.
- Shak.
4.A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.
v. t.1.To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.


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