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Dirge :: Dirge (a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn..

Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person..

Nenia :: Nenia (n.) A funeral song; an elegy.

Arval :: Arval (n.) A funeral feast.

Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.

Eloge :: Eloge (n.) A panegyrical funeral oration.

Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..

Achievement :: Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

Saulie :: Saulie (n.) A hired mourner at a funeral.

Upholder :: Upholder (n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies..

Hearselike :: Hearselike (a.) Suitable to a funeral.

Sutteeism :: Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

Keener :: Keener (n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.

Pile :: Pile (n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.

Exequial :: Exequial (a.) Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.

Sable :: Sable (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.

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