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mnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

To inter with funeral rites; to bury. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

A funeral feast. [North of Eng.] Grose.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

. -- Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service.

erson, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Matt. viii. 21. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. Shak.

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.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

An outcry or shout of many together. [R.] Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan).

vetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson.

Dead march (Mus.), a piece of solemn music intended to be played as an accompaniment to a funeral procession. -- Dead nettle (Bot.), a harmless plant with leaves like a nettle (Lamium album). -- Dead oil (Chem.), the heavy oil obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. -- Dead…

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford.

To discourage; to deject. His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us. Shak.

to apply; to employ; to dispose of. Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. Evelyn.

A panegyrical funeral oration.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. Milton. Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel. Whittier.