Definition of hearses:
(n) :
A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
(n) :
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n) :
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
(n) :
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(v) :
(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
(n) :
Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”). [(zoology, hunting) A hind in her second or third year.]