hearse UK /hɜːs/US /hɝs/noun 4verb 1forms 3 noun4 •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. — 1593 •A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave. •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. •A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows, — 1600 verb1 •(old-fashioned) 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! — 1596 formshearsed · hearsing · hearses