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Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

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..

Catafalque :: Catafalque (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial..

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

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

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..

Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..

Herse :: Herse (n.) A funeral ceremonial.

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

Solemnity :: Solemnity (n.) A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament..

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

Undertaker :: Undertaker (n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals..

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

Mute :: Mute (n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

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..

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

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..

Infuneral :: Infuneral (v. t.) To inter with funeral rites; to bury.

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

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..

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