Defn: A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright.
HEARSE
Hearse, n. Etym: [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 specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
HEARSE
Hearse, v. t.
Defn: To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." Shak.
HEARSECLOTH
Hearse"cloth`, n.
Defn: A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp.
Sanderson.