hearse

noun

1. 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.
2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

   “underneath this sable hearse”

   “Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows,”

   “who lies beneath this sculptured hearse”

3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

   “Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.”

4. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
5. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).

verb

1. (dated)To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

   “I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”