Acerra

A term applied by the ancients to a kind of altar placed near the bed of a dead person. Incense and other perfumes were consumed on it by fire previous to the funeral, and acerræ were the pots in which the incense was burnt. Acer'ra, an episcopal town of South Italy, Terra di Lavoro, seated on the Agno, 7 miles N.E. of Naples. Pop. about 11,000.