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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

pure

, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] fire. See

A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.

For nine long nights, through all the dusky air,
The

pyres

thick flaming shot a dismal glare.

Pope.

Noun.

[L. pyra.] A funeral pile; a pile to be burnt.