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hearse

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1. hearse - Noun

2. hearse - Verb

Meaning

A hind in the year of its age.

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.

A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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But most, thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. William Blake

Night with all her negro train, Took possession of the plain; In an hearse she rode reclin'd. Drawn by screech-owls slow and blind: Close to her, with printless feet, Crept Stillness in a winding sheet. Christopher Smart

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse. Norman Wisdom

Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse. T. S. Eliot

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment. Holly Black

There's no trailer hitch on a hearse. Canadian Proverb

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