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

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

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

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..

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

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.

Wyla :: Wyla (n.) A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.

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

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

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

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

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

Knell :: Knell (n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything..

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

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

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

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

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..

Obit :: Obit (n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.

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

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