Definitionen
1.NounA 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.
2.NounA grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
3.NounA bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
4.NounA carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
5.VerbTo enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
6.NounAlternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).