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Saulie :: Saulie (n.) A hired mourner at a funeral.

Wyla :: Wyla (n.) A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.

Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

Sable :: Sable (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.

Epicede :: Epicede (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..

Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.

Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

Eloge :: Eloge (n.) A panegyrical funeral oration.

Obit :: Obit (n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.

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

Sutteeism :: Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.

Bury :: Bury (v. t.) 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..

Funerate :: Funerate (v. t.) To bury with funeral rites.

Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement..

Nenia :: Nenia (n.) A funeral song; an elegy.

Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..

Hearse :: Hearse (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..

Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..

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