Crossword clues for cerement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cerement \Cere"ment\, n. [L. cera wax: cf. F. cirement.]
A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A burial shroud or garment. 2 cerecloth.
WordNet
n. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
Usage examples of "cerement".
Though, by the look of it, the cerement had done that duty on several occasions.
A great deal of embalming unguent had been poured over the swathed cadaver, and this gluey stuff had hardened, turned black, and cemented the cerements to the body.
Like cerements at a played-out masque, the rough And reptile skins of us whereon we set The stigma of scared years -- are we to get Where atoms and the ages are one stuff.
Back River, Bush River, Gunpowder Creek,--lives there the man with soul so dead that his memory has cerements to wrap up these senseless names in the same envelopes with their meaningless localities?
The torso with its limbs, garbed in some crude but decent cerements, was now laid reverently within.
I understood little more than that I was alive, though garbed in the cerements of the grave.
The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.
Though, by the look of it, the cerement had done that duty on several occasions.
Then for a short time a cerement of underbrush might thrive on the rich humus beside the decaying trunk, until the branches above refilled the gulf and strangled the life-giving rays.
Imagine the terrorthe blackness, the silence of the grave, the screams that can never be heard, the hopeless rending of cerements, the tearing and biting, the struggling and writhing, and finally the slow painful death from suffocation.
So let me lie one day, One long, eternal day, in sunshine bathed, In cerements of silken tissue swathed, Smothered 'neath flowers of May.
In memory, she reexplored the unaneled cerements which enclosed his mind, sought the knot which would unbind them.
The mark of the devil on a woman's breast is only a mole, the man who came back from the dead and stood at his wife's door dressed in the cerements of the grave was only suffering from locomotor ataxia, the bogeyman who gibbers and capers in the corner of a child's bedroom is only a heap of blankets.