hearse : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hearse	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for hearse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hearse n a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hearse \Hearse\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] --Wright.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hearse \Hearse\, n. [See {Herse}.] 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. [Obs.] --Oxf. Gloss. 2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] [bd]Underneath this marble hearse.[b8] --B. Johnson. 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. [Obs.] Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. --Shak. 4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hearse \Hearse\, v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] [bd]Would she were hearsed at my foot.[b8] --Shak.