Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHARN'EL-HOUSE
CHARN'EL-HOUSE, n.
A place under or near churches, where the bones of the dead are reposited. Anciently, a kind of portico or gallery, in or near a church-yard, over which the bones of the dead were laid, after the flesh was consumed. – Encyc.
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