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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Undertaking :: Undertaking (n.) Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals..

Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement..

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

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..

Funebrial :: Funebrial (a.) Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.

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..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

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

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