Dictionary entry

Inhume

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐hume″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Inhumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Inhuming.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.]

1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,

Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.

2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.