Word Meanings - EXHUMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.

Related words: (words related to EXHUMATION)

• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXHUME
  To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BURIAL
  1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff . 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant
• EXHUMATED
  Disinterred.
• BURIN
  1. The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool
• EXHUMATION
  The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.
• BURIER
  One who, or that which, buries. Till the buriers have buried it. Ezek. xxxix. 15. And darkness be the burier of the dead. Shak.
• BURION
  The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus
• DANBURITE
  A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.
• TREE BURIAL
  Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.
• TIMBURINE
  A tambourine.
• CARBURIZE
  To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.
• SALISBURIA
  The ginkgo tree .
• CARBURIZATION
  The act, process, or result of carburizing.
• UNBURIABLE
  Not ready or not proper to be buried. Tennyson.
• DECARBURIZE
  To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.
• DECARBURIZATION
  The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
• EBURIN
  A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. Knight.