See Also: hearse(medicine)
hearse(1)(dictionary)
hearse(2)(dictionary)
hearse(dictionary)
menial(dictionary)
MENIAL(law)
menial 1, adjective(dictionary)
menial 2, noun(dictionary)
SERVANTS, menial(law)

menial 1, adjective (oh) and hearse (medicine)


menial 1, adjective (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: meiniee 'household', from Latin mansio; MANSION]
menial work is boring, needs no skill, and is not important
::a menial job
::She did menial tasks about the house.

hearse (medicine)


hearse


1. 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.

2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. "Underneath this marble hearse." "Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows." (Fairfax) "Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse." (Longfellow)

3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. "Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse." (Shak)

4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

See: Herse.

Source: Websters Dictionary