hearse
[hɚs]
n.

1. Dance before dead England's Hearse.
   死英跳舞。
2. Blasts the new born infant's tear. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
   把新婴哭阻挠，新被瘟疫糟蹋。

hearse
[ noun ]
a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
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Hearse \Hearse\ (h[~e]rs), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A hind in the second year of its age. [Eng.] --Wright.


Hearse \Hearse\ (h[~e]rs), 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]
``Underneath this marble hearse.'' --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 or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for
conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.
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Hearse \Hearse\, v. t.
To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] ``Would she were
hearsed at my foot.'' --Shak.