Cerement: Definition and part of speech

Cerement

  1. n. Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.
  2. n. A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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