hearse

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A vehicle for conveying a coffin to a church or cemetery.
• noun Christianity A triangular candelabrum used at Tenebrae during Holy Week.
• noun A framelike structure over a coffin or tomb on which to hang epitaphs.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To put on or in a hearse.
• A Scotch form of hoarse.
• noun A canopy, usually of openwork or trellis, set. over a bier, or more rarely over a permanent tomb, and used especially to support candles which were lighted at times of ceremony.
• noun A bier; a bier with a coffin.
• noun A carriage for conveying a dead person to the grave. The usual modern form has an oblongroofed body, often with glass sides, and a door at the back for the insertion of the coffin.
• noun A temporary monument erected over a grave.
• noun A dirge or threnody, or a solemn recital or chant.
• noun In heraldry, a charge resembling a portcullis or a harrow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
• noun Archaic A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
• noun obsolete A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
• noun A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.
• transitive verb obsolete To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
• noun engraving A hind in the second year of its age.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A hind in the second year of its age.
• noun A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
• noun A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
• noun A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
• noun A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
• verb dated To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle