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Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post- mortem examination.

Further, a dead body is not of the same species as a living body: consequently it does not seem to be identical with it.

Defn: To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Defn: The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.

Funeral pile, 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.

Defn: To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.

To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

But where was I now to look for a dead body?

And I reckon I was more skeared once snapping up a dead body, than ever I shall be lifting a live one.

Where was I to look for a dead body, at such a time of night?

The wooden image was got ready with as much expedition as Zobeide could have wished, and then conveyed by the old lady herself into Fetnah's bed-chamber, where she dressed it like a dead body, and put it into a coffin.

All that must now be thought of, is how to deceive the commander of the believers; and I am of opinion, that you should immediately cause a wooden image resembling a dead body to be carved.

It is likely he will cause the coffin to be taken up and opened, and it is certain he will be convinced of her death, as soon as he shall see the figure of a dead body buried.

It was said that subjects interesting and profitable to all would be discussed; and especially was the presence of the Holy Spirit desired and prayed for, since, without God present with us, the assembly would be only a dead body.

As we passed along we came suddenly on a dead body, some days cold and stiff.

She wanted to know why the lead had been packed so carelessly, and what use a dead body could be to any one.

I explain it by saying there was no dead body," said Quarles sharply, as if I were denying a self-evident fact.

What could any one want with a dead body?

We have got to explain the theft of a dead body.

Anybody might say the saints had sent you a dead body; but if you took the jewels, I hope you buried him--and you can afford a mass or two for him into the bargain.

I see torches: there must be a dead body coming.

I have no belief in an old friar being so terribly impressed by the mere sight of a dead body.

And on the door there lay, covered with a sheet, what was evidently a dead body.

Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat.

Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body.

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

These are unquestionably the corpse lights, called in Wales Canhwyllan Cyrph, which are sometimes seen to illuminate the spot where a dead body is concealed.

This is a sort of charm, sung by the lower ranks of Roman Catholics, in some parts of the north of England, while watching a dead body, previous to interment.

His senses forsook him, and he fell flat on the ground, as a dead body falls.

He who fainted at the recital of Francesca, 'And he who fell as a dead body falls' would exterminate all the inhabitants of every town in Italy!

Morgante lifted up the stone, and out leaped, surely enough, a devil in the likeness of a dried-up dead body, black as a coal.

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