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Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell..

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..

Pollinctor :: Pollinctor (n.) One who prepared corpses for the funeral.

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..

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

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

Myriologue :: Myriologue (n.) An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend..

Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..

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..

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

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