taphephobia             an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
felo-dese               a person who commits suicide, or who commits a
                        crime resulting in his or her own death.
bioscopy                (med.) examination of the body to determine
                        whether it is alive.
fossor                  (in early Christianity) a minor clergyman
                        whose job it was to dig graves.
cerecloth               waxed cloth, used for bandages and for
                        wrapping the dead. (|cerements| are cerecloth
                        wrappings, or any graveclothes.)
gisant                  a sculpture of a recumbent corpse.
redivivus               living again.
resurrection man        one who steals dead bodies, esp. for dissection.
flapdragon              a game in which players snatch and eat plums,
                        raisins, etc., out of burning brandy.
nim                     (arch.) to take or steal; a game with counters.
crambo                  a game in which one player proposes a word,
                        and the other must find a rhyme.  [from
                        Gk. /crambe~ repeti~ta/, repeated cabbage.]
bagatelle               a trifle; a board game in which balls are
                        struck into holes with a cue; pinball; a
                        short, light composition, usually for piano.