mortuary

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
2. adj. Of or relating to burial practices.
3. adj. Relating to or characteristic of death.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to the burial of the dead.
2. n. In law, a sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty. Mortuaries, where due by custom, were recoverable in the ecclesiastical courts.
3. n. A burial-place.
4. n. A place for the temporary reception of the dead; a dead-house.
5. n. A memorial of the death of some beloved or revered person; especially, in the seventeenth century, a sword bearing some emblem of the wearer's devotion to the memory of Charles I. and the cause of royalty.

Wiktionary

1. adj. of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal
2. n. a place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation
3. n. a morgue

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
2. n. A burial place; a place for the dead.
3. n. A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
4. n. A funeral home.
5. adj. Of or pertaining to the dead.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of death
2. adj. of or relating to a funeral
3. n. a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation