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hearse 音標拼音: [h'ɚs] n. 靈車 靈車 hearse n 1: a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicleHearse \ Hearse\ ( h[~ e] rs), n. [ Etymol. uncertain.] A hind in the second year of its age. [ Eng.] -- Wright. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [ Archaic] " Underneath this marble hearse." -- B. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. -- Fairfax [ 1913 Webster] Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin. [ 1913 Webster PJC]
Hearse \ Hearse\, v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [ Obs.] " Would she were hearsed at my foot." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
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