Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cremation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cremation \Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.]
A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cremation
n : the incineration of a dead body
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