Definition of "hearse"

hearse

/hɜːs/

noun
plural hearses
1. A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age.
2. 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.
3. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
  Quotations
  underneath this sable hearse
  1621, Ben Jonson, Epitath to Mary Herbert
  Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows,
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes
  who lies beneath this sculptured hearse
  1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To the Avon
4. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
  Quotations
  Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.
  c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]
5. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
verb
third-person singular simple present hearses, present participle hearsing, simple past and past participle hearsed
1. (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
  Quotations
  I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]

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