Definition of "hearse" in English

noun

1. 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.

2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

4. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

verb

1. (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

noun

1. Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).