(n.) 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.
(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 200 people attended the East End-style funeral, complete with a horse-drawn hearse.
(2) Builders and plumbers want to cut corners by taking their final journey in a white van, while farmers fancy a send-off on a horse-drawn cart, tractor or even a specially manufactured Land Rover hearse and matching limousine.
(3) A pipe and drum band and mounted members of law enforcement in dress uniform advanced before the hearse.
(4) Unusual hearses – once a niche market – are setting a trend for send-offs with a difference as almost a quarter (23%) of Britons say they want to make their last journey in a personalised vehicle, according to new research from the UK’s biggest funeral director.
(5) Mark Gatiss , who co-created Sherlock with Moffat and wrote the third series' opening episode, The Empty Hearse, said: "We knew right from the start how we were going to do it.
(6) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
(7) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
(8) Earlier in the day, Ali’s hearse had made a slow procession to the Cave Hill cemetery.
(9) The company, which has a network of more than 900 funeral homes across the UK, carried out a study into alternative hearses which are now used in almost 40,000 funerals every year.
(10) The hearses of the two men were parked at the front of the parking lot to be prayed on before they were driven out to lead a procession of mourners to the mosque.
(11) There are also alternatives for hire like a camper van hearse or a motorbike hearse.
(12) After Gately's coffin was carried out of the church, the surviving members of Boyzone stood behind the hearse in a silent group, huddled for a few minutes' reflection while local women and children showered them and the hearse with dozens of white roses.
(13) This time, the coffin will be transferred to a horse-drawn hearse, to lead the way to a service of compline, with a sermon from a Roman Catholic archbishop, Vincent Nicholls.
(14) In utter silence, the coffins were carefully loaded into hearses and taken away for identification at Hilversum.
(15) You don’t have to dig deep for a funeral – there are cheaper alternatives Read more You don’t have to transport the dead in a hearse.
(16) I imagine there will be one hearse for me and the rest will be bikes.
(17) Some sheltered from the rain in shop doorways, hours ahead of the moment the hearses carrying the bodies were to be driven through the town on their way to a hospital in Oxford.
(18) At 1.30pm, the coffin was carried out of St Laurence's on the shoulders of Gately's bandmates and placed in the hearse that would take him on to the Glasnevin cemetery.
(19) But if you choose to do it all yourself, with an eco-coffin, a basic cremation and an estate car or van instead of a hearse, it’s possible to get the cost down to a fraction of that – perhaps as little as £400.
(20) She had no idea when the body was buried and never saw hearses enter or leave the property.
Hoarse
Definition:
(superl.) Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
(superl.) Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
(2) The spectrum of disabilities attendant to laryngeal paralysis range from mild hoarseness to complete upper airway obstruction depending upon the static position of the paralyzed cord or cords.
(3) Patients usually complain of hoarseness and almost 50% present with cervical lymph node metastases.
(4) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(5) There was no evidence for dysphagia, respiratory abnormality, or hoarse voice in any other relative.
(6) This report reviews the literature and presents the case of a 10-year-old girl with a neck mass and hoarseness due to an osteochondroma of the cervical spine.
(7) We report a case of disseminated coccidioidomycosis that involved the larynx and cervical lymph nodes in a 40-year-old white woman who presented with hoarseness and unsuspected airway compromise.
(8) At the end of the tests the development of the most significative symptomatologic parameters has been analysed according to the Wilcoxon test: quantity, kind and characteristics of nasal secretions, nasal obstruction, phlogosis of the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa, hoarseness, difficulty in catarrhal expectoration, hypoacusia, retraction of the tympanic membrane.
(9) A high index of suspicion of tuberculosis is important in the differential diagnosis of neck swellings, hoarseness and otorrhoea.
(10) Foreign body sensation, difficulty in swallowing, and hoarseness may all stem from one entity or may be totally unrelated.
(11) Hoarseness, asthma, and bronchitis are common but sometimes obscure manifestations of gastroesophageal reflux, the etiology of when respiratory symptoms predominate.
(12) Compared with patients with M. pneumoniae, patients with C. pneumoniae were less likely to have a temperature greater than 37.8 degrees C (10% vs. 34%), but were more likely to present with a sore throat (80% vs. 52%) or hoarseness (30% vs. 3%).
(13) Causes of hoarseness after thyroidectomy could be mild recurrent superior laryngeal or combined nerve paralysis.
(14) Other features which conform to previous reports are a peculiar face with a long philtrum, protuberant lower lip, relative micrognathia, large dysplastic ears, excessive loose skin folds around the scalp, neck and trunk, large hands with camptodactyly, varus deformities of the feet and a hoarse, low-pitched voice.
(15) They most frequently occur in young women, are unilateral in 98 p cent of cases, and are manifest after a long period by endocrine signs (75 p. cent of cases) whose most frequent combination is: amenorrhea-hirsutism-hoarse voice.
(16) On the basis of several case examples, in which dysphagia and hoarseness were caused by a submucosal thickening of the arytenoid and aryepiglottic fold, the authors propose that these unclear symptoms also be regarded as indication for larynx CT.
(17) After operation most of them were uneventful, but 2 experienced TIA, 2 contralateral reversible weakness and 1 mild hoarseness.
(18) Claudio Ranieri cautious but says everything is in Leicester City’s hands Read more But this is one area in which the manager is failing; his players are openly talking about finishing on top, while the supporters are practically singing themselves hoarse in anticipation of a first top division crown in the club’s history.
(19) The most common symptoms were hoarseness (71%), cough (51%), globus (47%), and throat clearing (42%).
(20) Most symptoms occurred in the first week except voice changes (hoarseness and weakness) which did not occur until the third week of treatment.