Tomb (?), n. [OE. tombe,
toumbe, F. tombe, LL. tumba, fr. Gr. ? a tomb,
grave; perhaps akin to L. tumulus a mound. Cf. Tumulus.]
1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is
deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Shak.
2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the
earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. "In
tomb of marble stones." Chaucer.
3. A monument erected to inclose the body and
preserve the name and memory of the dead.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.
Shak.
Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species
of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs,
especially the Egyptian species (T. perforatus).
Tomb,, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Tombed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tombing.]
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
I tombed my brother that I might be
blessed.
Chapman.