21) funereal. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...1. Of or relating to a funeral. 2. Appropriate for or suggestive of a funeral; mournful: funereal gloom. From Latin fnereus, from fnus, fner-, funeral. See funeral.fuˇnereˇalˇly...
22) 57831. Thomas, Dylan. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:57831 QUOTATION:After the funeral, mule praises, brays, ATTRIBUTION:Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. After the Funeral (l. 1). The Collected Poems of...
23) funeral director. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...One whose business is to arrange for the burial or cremation of the dead and assist at the funeral rites and who is usually an embalmer. Also called mortician, undertaker....
24) 40903. Mumford, Lewis. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:40903 QUOTATION:The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance. ATTRIBUTION:Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), U.S. social philosopher. The Culture of Cities,...
25) 586. Jimmy Breslin. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 586 AUTHOR: Jimmy Breslin QUOTATION: The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. ATTRIBUTION:...
26) Cresswell (Madame). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A woman of infamous character who bequeathed 10 for a funeral sermon, in which nothing ill should be said of her. The Duke of Buckingham wrote the sermon, which was...
27) dead march. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A slow, solemn funeral march....
28) undertaker. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. (undr-tkr) See funeral director. 2. One, especially an entrepreneur, that undertakes a task or job....
29) sky burial. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A traditional Tibetan funeral practice in which the body of a dead person is exposed to the open air to be eaten by vultures....
30) 363. Interment. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...sepulture, entombment or intombment, inhumation, humation [obs.]; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake. CREMATION, burning; pyre, funeral pile. FUNERAL RITE, funeral...
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