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church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house,<br />

charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate † ; burning ghat † ; crematorium, crematory;<br />

dokhma † , mastaba † , potter's field, stupa † , Tower of Silence.<br />

sexton, gravedigger.<br />

monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori<br />

[Lat.]; hatchment † , stone; obelisk, pyramid.<br />

exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination [Lat.];<br />

zoothapsis † .<br />

V. inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb;<br />

inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a<br />

shovel; inurn † .<br />

exhume, disinter, unearth.<br />

Adj. burried &c v.; burial, funereal, funebrial † ; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary † ; elegiac;<br />

necroscopic † .<br />

Adv. in memoriam; post obit, post mortem [Lat.]; beneath the sod.<br />

Phr. hic jacet [Lat.], ci-git [Fr.]; RIP; requiescat in pace [Lat.]; the lone couch of his<br />

everlasting sleep [Shelley]; without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown [Byron];<br />

in the dark union of insensate dust [Byron]; the deep cold shadow of the tomb [Moore].<br />

2. Special Vitality<br />

364. Animality -- N. animal life; animation, animality † , animalization † ; animalness,<br />

corporeal nature, human system; breath.<br />

flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength &c 159.<br />

Adj. fleshly, human, corporeal.<br />

365. Vegetability † -- N. vegetable life; vegetation, vegetability † ; vegetality † .<br />

V. vegetate, grow roots, put down roots.<br />

Adj. rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive † .<br />

366. Animal -- N. animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.<br />

beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing;<br />

dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.<br />

[major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean,<br />

shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.<br />

[microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule &c 193.<br />

[reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur (extinct); snake, serpent, viper, eft;<br />

asp, aspick † .<br />

[amphibians] frog, toad.<br />

[fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.<br />

[insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.<br />

[arthropods] tardigrade, spider.<br />

[classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped; [web-footed animal] webfoot.

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