Search Result for "funeral pyre":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite;
[syn: pyre, funeral pyre]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Funeral \Fu"ner*al\, a. [LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n.] Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Funeral pile or Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. -- Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

funeral pyre n 1: wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite [syn: pyre, funeral pyre]