Pyre is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PYRE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a pile of combustible material
• a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony.
• pile of wood for burning a corpse on
• A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
• wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

Words related to PYRE

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Words that contain PYRE

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How to use PYRE in a sentence

• Meantime his body was set adrift on a floating funeral pyre.
• The fire was lighted and the pyre was closed, And speedily to ashes were reduced The lifeless husband and the living wife.
• Preparations were made for the obsequies and a funeral pyre erected.
• If Naishadha with voice deep as that of the clouds doth not come to me today, I shall enter into a pyre of golden brilliance.
• Hercules, after performing many mythical exploits, had himself burned alive on the pyre which he built upon Mount Oeta, and was borne to Olympus amidst peals of thunder.
• But when she heard that he was dead, she came down to Troy, and in her grief threw herself on his funeral pyre, and perished by his side.
• Having accomplished this work, the lighted tinder was applied, when the flames leaped high up in the air, forming a fit funeral pyre for their slain companions.
• Pollio is touched by her magnanimity, and together they ascend the funeral pyre, in its flames to be cleansed from earthly sin.
• Ancient things were just then becoming a fashion, and some persons declared that it would be a fine thing to re-establish, for distinguished persons, the funeral pyre.
• God rest him! Never hero had A nobler funeral pyre! FRIAR ANSELMO.
• Gloomy the old vassal prepared the funeral pyre of his mistress.
• When the fire had burnt down a little, fresh staves were brought and heaped on the pyre.
• We remember how Hercules built and ascended his own funeral pyre.
• The funeral pyre was knocked down by a storm, and dogs devoured the half-burnt remains.
• The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.
• A great pile of firewood has meanwhile been heaped up about it, and the women run round the pyre cursing in shrill voices the wicked spirit who has wrought all this evil.
• The man who had been the first to reach the pyre and to kindle it was rewarded on Easter Sunday by the women, who gave him coloured eggs at the church door.
• The squire, or other person of high degree, put the torch to the pyre, and the priest blessed it.
• They walked to the pyre, and their step did not falter.
• A large pyre is built during the evening, of rails and pine wood, on the middle of which is placed a barrel of tar, surrounded by straw saturated with turpentine.
• At last the curtains were jerked apart, and revealed what seemed to be a funeral pyre.
• On nearing the pyre the dead body is exposed to view, and the pieces of flesh of the sacrificial animals, which are with the corpse, are thrown away.
• The corpse is laid on the pyre, inside the coffin, if one is used, with the head to the west and the feet to the east.
• He walked three times round the pyre, and then planted his flute in the earth and threw himself into the flames.
• After U Raitong and the queen had been burned, a pool of water formed in the foundations of the pyre, and a bamboo sprang up whose leaves grew upside-down.
• When Anne and her uncle set forth in the summer sunset light the great hill above them was dark with the multitudes thronging around the huge pyre rising in the midst.
• His freedmen knew I was coming, embalmed the body, and wait for me to go to Rome to-morrow to give the funeral oration and light the pyre.
• At this juncture the Moriyas of Pipphalivana sent in a claim for a share but had to be content with the embers of the pyre since all the bones had been distributed.

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