Definition of: hearse

(hûrs) noun
1. A vehicle for carrying the dead to the grave.
2. A symbolical triangular frame set with spikes, resembling teeth of a harrow, on which lighted candles are placed during the singing of Tenebrae in Holy Week.
—v.t. hearsed, hears·ing
1. To put in or on a hearse.
2. To bury. [<F herse a harrow <L hirpex, -icis; so called because the frame for candles about a coffin resembled a harrow]