Reverse Dictionary: FUNERAL

ADJECTIVES
► BUSTUARY belonging to the funeral pyre; funereal  → 1656 obs.
► FUNEBRAL relating to a funeral; mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1581
► FUNEBRIAL relating to a funeral; mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1604
► FUNEBRIOUS pert. to funerals; hence, gloomy, sad, melancholy, mournful → 1630 obs.
► FUNEBROUS relating to a funeral; mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1654
► FUNERARY relating to a funeral or the commemoration of the dead → 1661
► FUNEROUS characterized by death or funerals; gloomy, mournful → 1650 obs.
► FUNESTAL relating to death or funerals; gloomy, mournful → 1538 obs.
► NECIAL pert. to funeral → 1606 obs.

ADVERBS
► FUNERALLY with funeral ceremonies → 1624 obs.

NOUNS
► AD a fire, a blazing pile, a funeral pyre → a900 obs.
► AFTER TEARS a post-funeral celebration → 2005 S. Afr. sl.
► ARVAL a funeral repast, usually consisting of bread or cakes with ale; also applied to funeral ceremonies in general → 1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BALE a funeral pile or pyre → a1000 obs.
► BALE-FIRE the fire of a funeral pile → a1000
► BELL-PENNY. money saved for paying one’s funeral expenses → Bk1898 Sc.
► BIDDING-BELL the funeral bell, a small bell used immediately before the commencement of service → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BIDDING-FEAST a funeral repast → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BURIELS an interment, a funeral → 1325 obs.
► BURYING a funeral, interment → 1815 Amer. dial.
► CALLING HOURS, THE a funeral wake → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CHURCH of a funeral: the end → 1970s US sl.
► COFFEE-DRINK a wake, a funeral watch → 1945 Amer. dial.
► COLD MEAT PARTY a funeral or wake → 1908 US sl.
► COLD MEAT TRAIN a funeral procession or a train that serves a cemetery → 20C sl.
► COOLER a funeral home → 1930s US Black sl.
► DEAD HOUSE a funeral parlour → 1965 Barbados sl.
► DHAEL a funeral → 1850 Eng. dial.
► DIRGIE a feast given in memory of a deceased person immediately after the funeral service → 1776 Sc.
► FUNERALS funeral expenses → 1496 obs.
► FUNERATION the performance of funeral rites → 1624 obs.
► GOING HOME CARD a decorated obituary notice and invitation to a Black funeral → 1972 Amer. dial.
► GOING HOME PIECE an elaborate floral arrangement for a Black funeral → 1972 Amer. dial.
► JUSTMENTS due ceremonies or formalities, esp. funeral rites → 1648 obs.
► MOLE-DAY a funeral → 1867 Eng. dial. obs.
► PAD OF STIFFS a funeral parlour → 1940s US Black sl.
► PINTO FUNERAL an inexpensive funeral → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PLANTING a funeral → 1936 Amer. dial. euphemism
► SCOLD’S CURE a funeral, a coffin → L18 sl.
► TAPHOPHILIA an abnormal love for funerals, graves, and cemeteries → 1991 (Bk.)
► ULLAGONE a cry of lamentation; a wail; a funeral lament → 1828 Anglo-Irish
► WARNING a notification of a death and forthcoming funeral → 1807 Amer. dial.
► WARNING PAPER a notification of a death and forthcoming funeral → 1950 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BEARER one who helps to carry a corpse to the grave, or who holds the pall in a funeral procession → 1633
► BERRINER a person attending a funeral → Bk1828 Eng. dial.
► BIDDELS the guests invited to a funeral → Bk1873 Eng. dial. obs.
► BIDDER one who invites, or delivers an invitation, as to a funeral or a wedding → 1548
► BLACK MAN a funeral director, an undertaker → 1927 Eng. dial.
► BLACK MASTER a funeral furnisher, an undertaker → 1823 Eng. dial.
► HOWLER a person hired to wail at a funeral or the bedside of the dying → 1844
► MORTICIAN a person who arranges funerals; an undertaker → 1895 orig. & chiefly Amer.
► MOURNER a person employed or hired to attend funerals in mourning clothes, or to utter formal lamentations for the dead → 1631
► MUTE a person hired to mourn at funerals → 18C Brit.
► PALLBEARER orig. a person holding an edge of the pall in a funeral procession; later, a person helping to carry or officially escorting the coffin at a funeral → 1707
► PALL-HOLDER a pallbearer; a person holding an edge of the pall in a funeral procession; later, a person helping to carry or officially escorting the coffin at a funeral → 1769
► PALL-SUPPORTER one of those attending the coffin at a funeral → 1904
► UNDERBEARER one who assists in carrying the coffin at a funeral → 1700 

VERBS
► BID to invite to a wedding or funeral → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► FUNERALIZE 1. to perform a religious ceremony at a funeral → 1860 Amer.
2. to hold a funeral or memorial service → 1863 Amer.
► FUNERATE to bury with funeral rites → 1548 obs.