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Procession :: Procession (v. t.) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands..

Station :: Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions..

Procession :: Procession (n.) The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course..

Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Morris :: Morris (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Cross-week :: Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions..

Torchlight :: Torchlight (n.) The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession..

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger..

Banner :: Banner (n.) A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place..

Way :: Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.

Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..

Splendor :: Splendor (n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like..

Hind :: Hind (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Parade :: Parade (v. t.) That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen..

By :: By (adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by..

Cortege :: Cortege (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

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