Definition of hearse

• n. - A hind in the year of its age.
• 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.