Hearse
[hɜːs] or [hɝs]
Definition
(noun.) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle.
Editor: Robert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hind in the year of its age.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
Checker: Nicole
Definition
n. a carriage in which the dead are conveyed to the grave: (orig.) a triangular framework for holding candles at a church service and esp. at a funeral service.—v.t. to put on or in a hearse.—n. Hearse′-cloth a pall for a corpse laid on a bier.—adj. Hearse′-like suitable to a funeral mournful.
Edited by Daniel
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home, and failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner. It also betokens the death of one near to you, or sickness and sorrow. If a hearse crosses your path, you will have a bitter enemy to overcome.
Edited by Edward
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Death's baby-carriage.
Typed by Lloyd
Unserious Contents or Definition
Seen on the dead.
A handsome vehicle in which the man who has always been a tail-ender is finally permitted to lead the procession.
Checker: Victoria
Examples
- At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Standing hard by the building was a plain hearse. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I tell you, he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety, and will drive you like a funeral, if you want. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We reached Venice at eight in the evening, and entered a hearse belonging to the Grand Hotel d'Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So up we went to the second story, when we came to Richard's name in great white letters on a hearse-like panel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That gig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On their first introduction, omnibuses were considered absurdities, and were ridiculed as painted hearses. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Typed by Bert