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Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms. [Colloq.]

und adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

rance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Churchyard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.…

nd cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.

es (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are embedded. -- Ground parrakeet (Zoöl.), one of several Australian parrakeets, of the genera Callips…

A churchyard. [Scot.]

hing, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. -- Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.]

A churchyard or cemetery. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss. Fool's paradise. See under Fool, and Limbo. -- Grains of paradise. (Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under Pepper. -- Paradise bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Bird of paradise. Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); a…

o allow the entrance or exit of anything. 't is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn. Shak.

, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.