Definition of tomb

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Tomb (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead..

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Disinter :: Disinter (v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
Tombester :: Tombester (n.) A female dancer.
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
Envault :: Envault (v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb.
Monument :: Monument (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions..
Rhinopome :: Rhinopome (n.) Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) 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..
Entombed :: Entombed (imp. & p. p.) of Entom.
Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o
Tester :: Tester (n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb..
Grave :: Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction..
Ungrave :: Ungrave (v. t.) To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume.
Intombing :: Intombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intom.
Epitaph :: Epitaph (n.) An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription..
Cenotaph :: Cenotaph (n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Intomb :: Intomb (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.
Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..
Burial :: Burial (n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
Tombless :: Tombless (a.) Destitute of a tomb.
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