Officiant: alternatives and connections

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are convert…

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…

The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a cha…

A kind of burial case.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their…

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chap…

A burial place.

A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.

A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

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

Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.