2. Verb. (third-person singular of hearse) ¹
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Definition of Hearses
1. hearse [v] - See also: hearse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hearses
Literary usage of Hearses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... alternately on either side of the candle- the word soul no longer suggests
the thought of other references show that hearses of thirty, twelve, nine, ..."
2. The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions by William Pulleyn (1830)
"hearses. Dn Gauge says: hearses erected in the church were anciently common, and
the term signified a candlestick, furnished with different lights, ..."
3. Three Years Among the Working-classes in the United States During the War by James Dawson Burn (1865)
"... System—Turbulence and Immorality of the Volunteers—Commercial Taste and
Enterprise—Transparent Coffins—hearses and Burials—Sketch of Broadway, ..."
4. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Rhipps (1895)
"... of Vienna—The Archduchess Maria Louisa —Facility of correspondence with
England—Smuggling in Hamburg —Brown sugar and sand—hearses filled with sugar and ..."
5. An Observer in the Philippines: Or, Life in Our New Possessions by John Bancroft Devins (1905)
"... One Child out of Two Dies—Funerals without hearses—Suggestive Music at a
Funeral—Vaults Rented by the Year. THE death-rate in the islands is very heavy. ..."
6. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"... AND hearses — A VISIT TO THE MARKETS — THE CURIOUS VEGETABLES AND FRUITS OF
INTERIOR SOUTH AMERICA—FROZEN POTATOES — BEANS THAT TASTE LIKE ICE-CREAM, ..."
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