OF FUNERALS. A CORPSE is a dead human body. (L., corpus, a body.) Corse is a poetic form of the word corpse. A CARCASS is, 1., and properly, The dead body of a beast. 2. The dead bodies of men are called carcasses, when they are uncared for by the living. The carcasses of half your senate Manure the plains of Thessaly.-Shakspeare. 3. The living human body by way of contempt. A SHROUD is a dress for the dead. A WINDING-SHEET is a sheet in which a corpse is wrapped. (From wind, to wrap.) A PALL is a cloth thrown over a dead body at funerals. PALLBEARERS are those who attend the coffin at a funeral. A COFFIN is a chest in which a corpse is placed. (Fr., coffre, a chest.) combustibles on which the Ancients sometimes burned their dead. Funereal, suiting a funeral; as, funereal gloom. OB'SEQUIES are funeral rites and solemnities. (L., obsequium, respect.) Ex'EQUIES are funeral rites. (L., ex, after; and sequor, to follow, in allusion to the procession.) Exe'quial, relating to funerals; as, exequial rites. Á TOMB is, 1. A common grave. 2. A vault for the reception of a dead body. 3. A monument erected to preserve the memory of a deceased person. (L., tumulus, a mound, in reference to the swelling of the earth, by which a grave is marked.) A CENOTAPH is an empty tomb erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. (Gr. xeves [cenos], empty; and raon [taphe], a tomb.) An EPITAPH is an inscription on a tomb. (Gr., 7 [epi], upon; and Taon [taphe], a tomb.) A BIER is a frame on which a cof- An URN was a vessel in which the fin is carried. (From bear, to carry.) ashes of the dead were formerly A HEARSE is a carriage fitted up kept. (L., urna, a pitcher.) for the purpose of carrying the dead to the place of burial. A GRAVE is a pit in which a dead human body is deposited, (Ger., graben, to dig.) To INTER is to bury the dead. (L., in, in; and terra, the ground.) Interment or Burial is the act of covering a dead human body in the ground. TO INHUME is to bury in the ground; as, to inhume a dead hody. (L., in, in; and humus, the ground.) Posthumous, born after the father has been put in the ground; as, a posthumous child. (humus, the ground; and post, after.) A FUNERAL is a burial with all its attendant observances. (L., funale, a torch, from funis, a rope, torches made of ropes were used by the Romans at funerals.) A Funeral Pile was a heap as of A SEPULCHER is a place in which the dead body of a human being is buried or deposited. (L., sepelio, [sepultum], to bury.) Sepulchral, pertaining to the interment of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone. Sep'ulture is the act of interment. A MAUSOLEUM is a magnificent sepulchral monument. (From Mausolus, a king of Caria, whose wife, Artemisia, erected to his memory a monument which was reckoned among the seven wonders of the world.) A CEMETERY is, 1. An edifice or area where the dead are interred.-Brande. 2. A common burying-ground. (Gr., auaw [coimao], to sleep.) NOTE.-Burying-grounds were called xoμTapia [caemeteria], (sleeping places) by the early Christians, as implying that the rest of the body in the grave was but a temporary sleep, from the resurrection. which it would be aroused on the morning of OF LOVE AND COURTSHIP. LOVE is an attachment between feigns a regard which she does not persons of opposite sexes. (From feel. (Fr.) love, to be pleased with.) Lovers are persons of opposite sexes who are mutually attached to each other. A Lover is a man who has an attachment for a female. NOTE.-Lover, in the singular, is always mas culine. A MISTRESS is a woman beloved and courted. A PASSION is a strong affection of love. A FLAME is, 1. The passion of love. 2. The object beloved; as, she was my first flame. Coquet'ry is an affectation of am orous advances. To Coquet' is to treat with an assumed appearance of amorous tenderness. A FLIRT is, 1. A pert girl. 2. A coquette. A JILT is a woman who gives her lover hopes, and then capriciously disappoints him. To Jilt is to give hopes to a lover, and then reject him. ADDRESSES are attentions paid by a gentleman to a lady, with a desire of gaining her hand in marriage. AMO, to love. (L.) Hence, Amorous, 1. Inclined to love; as, 2. Per A SWEETHEART is either a lover or a mistress. (From sweet and heart.) A SUIT is a solicitation in mar- an amorous temperament. riage. (From suit, solicitation, from taining to, or indicating love; as, amsue, to solicit, from Fr., suivre, to pur- orous airs. sue.) A SUITOR is one who solicits a woman in marriage. To Woo is to endeavor, by gentle and delicate attentions, to gain a woman's consent to marry. TO COURT is to endeavor, by polite and agreeable attentions, to gain the hand of a woman in marriage. (From court, to pay flattering attentions, from court, the residence of a king.) GALLANT, polite and attentive to ladies. Hence, A Gallant is, 1. A man who is polite and attentive to ladies. 2. A lover. Gallantry, civilities paid to fe males. A SPARK is a lover. A BEAU is a man who attends a lady. (Fr., beau, gay.) Amatory and Amatorial, pertaining to love; as an amatorial song 2. Causing love; as, an amatory po tion. Amativeness, a propensity to love. (A phrenological term.) Enamor, to inflame with love. Enamorado, one deeply in love. QIAEN [PHILEO], to love. (Gr.) Hence, PHILTER, a love potion. A LOVE-POTION is a drink administered for the purpose of exciting love. citing love, exist only in the imaginations of the ignorant. NOTE.-Potions possessing the quality of ex VENUS is the goddess of beauty and love. (See Art., Mythology.) CUPID, the son of Venus, is the god of love. (See Art., Mythology.) To be SMITTEN is to be wounded in A COQUETTE, (co-ket',) is a gay and the heart by one of Cupid's arrows; airy girl, who endeavors to attract as, he was smitten with the charms the attention of gentlemen, and who of the young lady. MARRIAGE is the legal union of a man and woman for life. To Marry is, 1. To unite, legally, a man and woman for life. 2. To dispose of in marriage. 3. To take for husband or wife. 4. To enter upon the married state. To WED is to marry. A Wedding is a marriage. Wedlock is the married state. NOTE.-Wedlock is sometimes used as a legal term, as when we speak of children born in wedlock. MATRIMONY is the married state. (L., mater, a mother, because married women are generally mothers.) NOTE.—This term is used in an ecclesiastical sense, as when we speak of the holy state of matrimony. Matrimonial, pertaining to the married state; as, a matrimonial alliance. The BANS of MATRIMONY are a public notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order To AFFIANCE is to pledge one's faith for the fulfillment of a marriage contract. (L., ad, to, and fides, faith.) Affianced, pledged in marriage. A SPOUSE was primarily a person engaged to be married. (L., sponsus, sponsa, engaged or promised.) But according to present usage the term spouse signifies one who is actually married. To Espouse is, 1. To betroth. 2. To wed. 3. To wed in a fig. sense; as, when we speak of espousing a cause. Espousal is the act of espousing or betrothing. Espousals are a contract or mutual promise of marriage. Spousal, pertaining to marriage; as spousal rites. A HUSBAND is a married man. NOTE.-According to the etymology of the term, my consort is one who shares the same lot that any person may object, if he either husband or wife. (L., con, toknows of any cause why the mar-gether; and sors, a lot.) riage should not take place. NUBO [nuptum], to marry. Hence, Nuptial, pertaining to a marriage; as, a nuptial feast. Nuptials, a wedding. (L.) Connubial, pertaining to the married state; as, connubial felicity. (con, together.) with myself. A RIB is a wife,-thus designated in allusion to Eve who was made of a rib taken from Adam's side. A BRIDE is a newly-married woman. A BRIDEGROOM is a newly-married man. A BRIDEMAID or BRIDE'SMAID is a Nubile, of an age suitable for mar-woman who waits on a bride at her riage. wedding. CONJUGAL, pertaining to the relation that subsists between man and wife; as conjugal affection. (L., conjugium, marriage, from con, together; and jugo, to yoke.) TO BETROTH is, 1. To pledge to be the future spouse of another. In some countries parents betroth their children at an early age. 2. To contract with any one in order to a future marriage. (Troth for truth. The term betroth, therefore, implies pledge one's truth for the fulfillment of an engagement to marry.) A BRIDEMAN or BRIDE'SMAN is a man who waits on a bridegroom and bride at their wedding. BRIDE-CAKE or WEDDING-CAKE is the cake made for the guests at a wedding. BRIDAL, pertaining to a wedding; as, bridal ornaments. A Bridal is a marriage festival. HYMEN, in the Grecian Mythology, was the god of marriage. Hence, Hymene al, or Hymene'an, pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites. A Hymene al or Hymene'an is a marriage song. For her the spouse prepares the bridal ring, A WIDOW is a woman who is lost For her white virgins hymeneals sing.—Pope. her husband by death, and has not An EPITHALA'MIUM, or EPITHALAMY married again. (L., viduus, vidua, is a song or poem composed as a com- bereaved.) pliment to a newly-married pair. TAMOX [GAMOS], a marriage. (Gr.) Hence, Monogamy, the state of being restrained to one wife. (Gr., μovos [monos], one.) Monogamist, one who disallows a second marriage. Bigamy, the crime of having two wives at the same time. (bi, two.) Bigamist, one who is guilty of the crime of having two wives at the same time. Polygamy, the practice of having more wives than one at the same time. (Gr., Tous [polys], many.) Polygamist, one who advocates or practices polygamy.. SINGLE, unmarried CELEBS, single. (L.) Hence, Celib'acy or Celibacy, the unmarried state. A BACHELOR is a man who has never been married. A MAID is a woman who has never been married. A Widower is a man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. A RELICT is a wife left desolate by the death of her husband. (L., relicta, left.) A DOWRY is the money or other property which a woman brings to her husband in marriage. A Dower is that portion of the lands and tenements of a man which a woman enjoys during her life after the death of her husband.-Blackstone. A JOINTURE is an estate in lands or tenements settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, and which she is to enjoy after her husband's decease.-Blackstone. ADULTERY is infidelity to the marriage vow. A DIVORCE is a legal separation of a married pair. TO REPUDIATE is to put away; as la wife. OF RELATIONSHIP. PARENT animals are the sources | of being to other animals of their kind. (L., pario, to bring forth.) Parental, pertaining to a parent; as, parental kindness. Á FATHER is a male parent of the human species. Fatherhood or Fathership is the state of being a father. Fatherly, 1. Pertaining to a father; as, fatherly duties. 2. Like a father in protection and care; as, he is a fatherly man. Pater Noster, the Lord's prayer, thus called because in Latin it begins with the words Pater noster (our father.) Patriot, lit., one who loves his fatherland. Hence, One who loves his country, whether it is his by birth or adoption. (L., patria, one's fatherland, from pater.) Patriarch, the father of a race. Jacob was the patriarch of the Jewish race. The sons of Jacob were the patriarchs of the Israelitish tribes. Fatherland, the land of one's fa- (Gr., Tarpia [patria], a family or thers. PATER, a father. (L.) Hence, Paternal, pertaining to a father; as, paternal care. Paternity, fatherhood. succession of families descended from a common rarup [pater], or father; and " [arche], the beginning.) Patricians, the Roman nobles, who assumed the title of patres or fathers | of the people. Patron, one who exercises the care of a father over some person or interest. Those who support a man in his profession or business are called his patrons. Maecenas was a patron of literary men. Grand-parents are the parents of parents. NOTE.--Grand is a French word signifying great. The term was originally applied in the way of respect and reverence. Great-grand-parents are the parents of grand-parents. Great-great-grand-parents are the Patrimony, an estate inherited parents of great-grand-parents. from one's [paternal] ancestors. Parricide for Patricide. 1. The murderer of a parent. 2. The murder of a parent. A SIRE is a male parent among the inferior animals. NOTE.-By the poets the term sire is used to signify a male parent of the human species. We may also say grandsire instead of grandfather. A MOTHER is a female parent of the human species. Motherhood, the state of being a mother. NOTE. The term great may be repeated any number of times according to the degree of remoteness that is to be indicated in the ascending ancestral line. ANCESTORS or FOREFATHERS are one's parents', grand-parents, greatgrand-parents, etc. (L., ante, before; and cedo [cessum], to go.) To be DESCENDED FROM is to derive one's origin from a certain ancestor. We are all descended from Adam and Eve. Descent is origin from a certain ancestor. Motherly, 1. Pertaining to a mother; Descendants are those who derive as, motherly duties. 2. Like a mother their origin from a certain ancestor. in affection and kindness; as, a moth-The Jews are the descendants of erly woman. MATER, a mother. (L.) Hence, Maternity, motherhood. Maternal, pertaining to or exercised by a mother; as, maternal duties; maternal love. Matron, 1. An elderly married woman. 2. A lady who has the charge of a charitable institution. Alma Mater, a fostering mother. The college or university where one has been educated is thus styled. (L., alma, fostering.) Matriculate, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by entering the name in a register. NOTE.-In being matriculated a person adopts the society or institution as his mother. (L., matricula, a little mother.) Matrimony, wedlock (Lit., motherhood). (See Art. Marriage.) Jacob. A STOCK is, 1, and properly. The common parent of a race. (From stock, the stem of a tree. According Matricide, 1. The murder of a to this figure, the descendants are the mother. 2. The murderer of a branches.) 2. A race. The Jews mother. (L., cædo, to kill.) were of the stock of Abraham. A DAM is the female parent among 3. A breed; as, a good stock of beasts. NOTE. The term dam is applied to the female parent of the human species only by way of contempt. cattle. A BREED is a stock of animals distinguished by certain qualities and |