Graveyard: alternatives and connections

An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name w…

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction fr…

The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepul…

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

Of or pertaining to a cemetery.

of Cemetery

A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp.,…