Bier: alternatives and connections

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are al…

A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession.

A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and…

A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transver…

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as par…

Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its…

A dead human body; a corpse.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.

A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…

A corpse; the dead body of a human being.

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate…

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-paw…

A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.

A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a…

A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, wh…

A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning…