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Bierbalk :: Bierbalk (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals..

Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

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

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

Epicede :: Epicede (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Funeration :: Funeration (n.) The act of burying with funeral rites.

Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

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

Knell :: Knell (n.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen..

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..

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

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