burial case

burial case
noun
: casket 3

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  • Burial case — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Burial — Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Burial ground — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Burial place — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Burial service — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Burial at sea — for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943 Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed… …   Wikipedia

  • Burial — This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see Burial (disambiguation). Inhume redirects here. for the band, see Inhume (band). Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by… …   Wikipedia

  • Burial liner — A Burial Liner, or Grave Liner is an enclosure that is placed over a coffin containing human remains, which is then buried in the ground. The casket serves as the inner enclosure of a deceased person; the liner serves as the outer enclosure.A… …   Wikipedia

  • Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The —    Short novel (51,500 words); written late January–March 1, 1927. First published (abridged) in WT (May and July 1941); first collected in BWS;corrected text in MM;annotated version in TD. Joseph Curwen, a learned scholar and man of affairs,… …   An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

  • burial with grave-goods —    In pagan burials and cremations, the dead body was often (though not invariably) accompanied by jewellery, weapons, food, and drink, and sometimes a horse or dog, presumably its possessions in life. Christianity abolished the custom for… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

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