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.