Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inhume"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Inhume \In*hume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inhumed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Inhuming}.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See {Inhumate}.]
1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to
inter.

Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume
the natives in their native plain. --Pope.

2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal
purposes.


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