0 a vehicle used to carry a body in a coffin to a funeral
1 a special car used to carry a body in a coffin (= long box) esp. to a funeral
The simple funeral will consist of a hearse, four bearers and one following car, and is subject to the distance not exceeding 10 miles.
That is precisely the purpose for which a hearse has been designed.
It is now being used as a hearse.
The only things that were not referred to were the hearses owned by the co-operative society.
If a hearse is excluded we do not see why a hearsette should not be excluded, too.
Quite a number of vehicles —for instance hearses—can be described as roofed vehicles which have side windows.
I shall not re hearse those points again.
Already, as people come to the baths to swim, they can observe the occasional hearse.