Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A watch over a dead body.
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Examples
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Before it had died away, one of the Saxon bondwomen shrieked aloud, and the next took up the cry, and then another, as a likewake dirge, till every stone in the shadowy manor seemed to have a voice, and every voice was weeping for the dead lord.
Via Crucis 1881
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