Pyre: alternatives and connections

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

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

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, o…

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the w…

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

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

To heap up; to pile.

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pol…

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

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

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are…

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

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…

Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.