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body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak.

ten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]

A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Destitute of a tomb.

A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.] J. Fletcher.

A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.

e time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.

To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

See Entombment.

To take from the tomb; to exhume; to disinter. Fuller.

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

One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].

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. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Matt. viii. 21. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. Shak.…

ining or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (Shak). (b) The tomb. (Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. Shak.

An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.