2) Death-meal (A). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A funeral banquet. 1 "Death-meals, as they were termed, were spread in honour of the deceased."-Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed, chap. 7....

3) Funeral. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...means a torchlight procession (from the Latin, funis, a torch), because funerals among the Romans took place at night by torchlight, that magistrates and priests...

4) Cypress (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...is a funeral tree, and was dedicated by the Romans to Pluto, because when once cut it never grows again. 1 "Cypresse garlands are of great account at funeralls amongst...

5) Obsequies. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...are the funeral honours, or those which follow a person deceased. (Latin, ob-sequor.) 1...

6) Funeral Banquet. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The custom of giving a feast at funerals came to us from the Romans, who not only feasted the friends of the deceased, but also distributed meat to the persons employed....

7) Funeral Games. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Public games were held both in Greece and Rome in honour of the honoured dead. Examples of this custom are numerous: as at the death of Azan (son of Arcas, father...

8) Baked Meat. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...means meat-pie. "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table" (Hamlet); i.e. the hot meat-pies (venison pasties) served at the funeral and...

9) wake. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...wake A funeral celebration, common in Ireland, at which the participants stay awake all night keeping watch over the body of the dead person before burial. A wake...

10) Take Mourning (To). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Attending church the Sunday after a funeral. It is the custom, especially in the northern counties, for all the mourners, and sometimes the bearers also, to sit in...