CREMATION

n. Kre2m-a's husn. Gr.. KaSo-is. Lat., crematio (from cremare, to burn). Fr., cremation. Ger., Verbrennung. It., crem azione. Sp., cremacion. Incineration, a reduction to ashes by means of combustion; as usually employed, the proce of disposing of the dead by subjection to intense heat in a chamber over a furnace devised for the purpose. The term is sometimes employed to denote the incineration of offal and garbage. U2, blue; Us, lull; U, full; U, urn; U, like U (German). [s. 439]